Contact Dr Hessam Ghasemnejad
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754395
- Email: Hessam.Ghasemnejad@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Aerospace Structures
- Aircraft Design
- Composites
- Lightweighting & Crashworthiness
- Aerospace Materials
Background
Dr Hessam Ghasemnejad is a Reader in Aerospace Structures at the Centre for Aeronautics. He joined Â鶹´«Ã½AV in 2016 as a Senior Lecturer in Structures in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. As a course director, he developed and established new short courses and MSc in Advanced Lightweight and Composite Structures (2016 - 2020). Before joining Cranfield, Dr Ghasemnejad was a Senior Lecturer in Composite Materials (2010 - 2016) at the School of Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering at Kingston University London. He has supervised several Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral programs as the main supervisor, and secured industrial research grants from Innovate UK, Clean Aviation, MoDs, and SME partners on designing and analysing advanced composite structures. He also acts as a Member of the Editorial Board of Journals and Scientific Committees of International Conferences.
Current activities
Hessam's main research activities are focused on experimental, analytical, and numerical aspects of stability and failure in composite structures under various transient dynamic loading conditions such as impact damage, blast, and crash. The impacts of his research have developed technologies investigated in the awarded projects, which are aimed at achieving world-leading innovative productions and healthier environments by reducing toxic emissions. This has been through the design and analysis of advanced lightweight materials for high-performance composite aerospace and automotive structures. The developed technologies have been assessed on a formal and consistent basis to identify the most promising technologies.
List of Post-Doctoral Completions:
1 - 2018 - 2019 - Development of a novel affordable neonate-infant transport incubator - Research Assistant - Innovate UK
2 - 2013 - 2015 - Design and optimisation of new generation of advanced aircraft composite structures - Research Assistant - Innovate UK
3 - 2016 - 2020 - A new power-plant integration with platform systems for future wing structures - Research Fellow - Innovate UK
4 - 2020 - 2021 - Development of aluminium foam box for crashworthiness performance improvement of road service vehicle - Research Assistant - Royal Academy of Engineering
5 - 2022 - 2025 - Hydrogen Engine Architecture Virtually Engineered Novelly (HEAVEN) - Research Fellow - Clean Aviation
6 - 2024 - 2025 - Development and implementation of waste-filled portable crash boxes for crashworthiness performance improvement of road service vehicles - Research Assistant - Royal Academy of Engineering
List of PhD Completions:
1 - 2016 - 2020 - Structural Integrity Enhancement of UAVs using 3D Printed Structures - PhD - (First Supervisor)
2 - 2015 - 2018 - Optimisation of Failure Mechanisms in Crashworthiness of Multi-stitched Composite Tubular Absorbers - PhD - (First Supervisor)
3 - 2014 - 2017 - Analytical Impact Analysis of Variable Curved Composite and Sandwich Panels - PhD - (First Supervisor)
4 - 2014 - 2017 - Analysis of the Effect of High-Velocity Impact Damage on the Repairability of CFRP Composite Panels - PhD - (First Supervisor)
5 - 2011 - 2014 - Explicit Finite Element Analysis to Predict Impact Damage Response of Osteoporosis Hip Bone - PhD - (First Supervisor)
6 - 2010 - 2013 - Delamination Failure in Natural Stitched Composite Structures - PhD - (First Supervisor)
7 - 2010 - 2013 - Fatigue Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) Composite Blades - PhD - (Second Supervisor)
8 - 2009 - 2012 - A New Approach to Project Management Based on a Combination of Predictive and Adaptive Thinking - PhD - (Second Supervisor)
Clients
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Innovate UK
- Airbus SE
- ITP Aero (Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC)
- Turkish Aerospace Industries
- Leonardo S.p.A
