

I am a Reader in Structural Composites. I obtained my PhD in the area of computational mechanics of composite structures from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1997. As a Research Associate, I worked with the Aeronautics Department of Imperial College London, from 1997 to 2000. In late 2000, I became a Research Fellow with the School of Engineering Science at the University of Southampton. I joined the Aerospace Engineering Department of University of Bristol in early 2004. At the end of 2006, I was appointed Senior Lecturer by the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and promoted to Reader in 2016.
I have more than 15 years of research experience in composites, and I've published over 80 internationally refereed journal and conference papers and a book chapter. My research was funded or awarded by Innovate UK and several leading UK industrial companies. I am a member of the European Mechanics Society, a member of the research centre of the Defence Science and Technique Laboratory, and a member of the National Network Group for Composites in Construction. I'm also an active member of scientific committee of International Conferences on Mechanics of Composites, and Composite Structures.
<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>Research interests̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>My research areas include computational damage mechanics and its application in aerospace, civil, mechanical, maritime, automotive engineering and the renewable energy industry; design, simulation and test of complex fibre composite structures; composite panel systems in construction; sandwich composite panels in bridge structures; fracture toughness and fatigue strength of composites; composite-adhesive repairing technology; bio-inspired design for improving damage resilience of composites; extended cohesive damage element method in simulation of multi-crack propagation; extended digital image correlation method to detect multiscale damage in engineering materials; 3D printing bio-mimicked composites; Prediction of natural and engineering slope failure propagation, etc.
2025
Chen, J., Fu, M., Loku-Pathirage, S.
13 Mar 2025, In: GeoHazards. 6, 1, 18p., 14
2024
Chen, J., Dixon, M., Dyadyura, K., Hunter-Haas, D., Smorodin, A.
25 Nov 2024, In: Journal of Composite Materials
Cao, M. y., Chen, J., Fu, M., Hu, H., Song, P. f.
26 Jul 2024, In: Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition). 34, 7, p. 2245-2259, 15p.