Dr Peter Dunning

Biography

2019: Became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

2016: Achieved Chartered Engineer status with IMechE.

2015: Joined University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer in the School of Engineering.

2014-2015: Research Associate at University of Bath, UK. Research areas: Mulit-scale topology optimisation, buckling constrained topology optimisation and simultaneous material-topology optimisation.

2013-2014: Research Scholar at National Institute of Aerosapce, VA, USA. Contracted to NASA Langley Research Center. Main reserach area: Aeroelastic topology optimisation.

2011-2012: Structural analyst at Eatec Ltd (Engineering consultancy company, Yate, UK)

2007-2011: PhD from University of Bath, UK. Thesis title: Introducing Loading Uncertainty in Level Set-Based Structural Topology Optimisation (link)

2002-2007: MEng in Aerospace Engineering from University of Bath, UK

Prizes and Awards

Nominated for several teaching awards:

• Best Supervisor (Postgraduate Research) (2019/20) – runner-up
• Best Undergraduate Lecturer (2020/21) & (2019/20)
• Best Supervisor (Postgraduate Research) (2018/19)
• Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching (2017/18)

Research Overview

Research Areas

Research Projects

Multiscale Reliability-Based Optimisation of Composite Materials

Improving the design of composite structures by combining multiscale analysis, uncertainty propagation, surrogate modelling and reliability-based optimisation.

The Effect of Matrix Property Smoothing on the Reliability of Fibre-Reinforced Composites

Multi-scale Reliability-Based Design Optimisation Framework for Fibre-Reinforced Composite Laminates

Multiscale surrogate-based framework for reliability analysis of unidirectional FRP composites

Influence of micro-scale uncertainties on the reliability of fibre-matrix composites

Development of an ABAQUS Plugin Tool for Periodic RVE Homogenisation

Geometric Nonlinear Topology Optimisation

Developing robust and efficient methods for including geometric nonlinear effects in topology optimisation

Automatic projection parameter increase for three-field density-based topology optimization

Stability constraints for geometrically nonlinear topology optimization

https://github.com/PDDopt/TopOptNLStab

On the co-rotational method for geometrically nonlinear topology optimization

Metamaterial Design and Optimisation

Improvement, or invention of metamaterial designs via optimisation

Thermal–mechanical metamaterial analysis and optimization using an Abaqus plugin

Aeroelastic Optimisation

Improving the structural design of aeroelastic problems by exploiting fluid-structure interaction

The double-tree method: An O(n) unsteady aerodynamic lifting surface method

Optimal Topology of Aircraft Rib and Spar Structures Under Aeroelastic Loads

Coupled aerostructural topology optimization using a level set method for 3D aircraft wings

Teaching Responsibilities

Current

EG1012 Fundamentals of Engineering Materials - Co-ordinator (100% teaching)

EG15H1 & EG15H2 Fundamentals of Engineering Materials (Harbin partnership) - Co-ordinator (100% teaching)

BEng & MEng Individual Projects - Supervisor

MSc Individual Projects - Supervisor

Previous

EG55P6/Q2 Engineering Risk and Reliability Analysis - Co-ordinator (100% teaching)

EG55M1/96 Finite Element Analysis - Contributor (50% teaching)

EG5565 MEng Group Design Project - Supervisor      

EG4578 BEng Group Design Project - Supervisor