Dr William Christian

I use digital image correlation and thermoelastic stress analysis to experimentally determine how defects cause structures to deform and fail. Much of my work has been focused on carbon-fibre reinforced polymers, looking at impact damage and fibre-waviness. Recently I have worked on more exotic ceramic matrix composite materials.

I use ultrasound and a novel strain-based defect assessment that I have developed to predict material properties for defective structures. I use simple statistical algorithms to make these predictions.

I use orthogonal decomposition of image data to perform pattern recognition. I also use texture analysis techniques for characterising defects.