The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. John's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About John

• Service as External Examiner (including research degrees): see Teaching
• Conferences organised: see Publications
• Conference papers: see Personal\Additional Information
• Book reviews: see Personal\Additional Information
• Hobbies and interests: see Personal\Additional Information

• Pathway Tutor for
  BEng/MEng (honours) Mechanical Engineering .. with Composites
  BEng/MEng (honours) Marine Technology .. with Composites
• Consultant Professor to the Mecánica de Laminados Compuestos course at Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FIUBA) - Argentina
• Head of MAterials and STructures (MAST) research group
• KTP Champion: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in Engineering
• Member of ...
• Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre
• Marine Institute
• Sustainable Earth Institute
  
• formerly Research Co-ordinator for civil and mechanical engineering
• Directory of Chartered Environmentalists
• ORCID profile
• Academia.edu profile
• Google Scholar profile
• ResearchGate profile
• ResearcherID profile
• ScholarGPS^TM profile

Supervised Research Degrees

• Dayang Habibah Abang Ismawi Hassim, PhD, 2019:
  Fatigue crack growth of recycled rubber in natural/butadiene rubber blend
• Aitor Hernandez Michelena, PhD, 2019:
  Natural fibre reinforced composite materials
• Mohammad Hossein Khanlou, PhD at Griffith University – Australia, 2018:
  Degradation of flax PLA biocomposites during and after manufacture
• Richard Pitwon, PhD, 2017:
  Pluggable optical connector interfaces for electro-optical circuit boards
• Vlad Zamorovskii, MPhil, 2017:
  Composite materials filled with ferromagnetic microwire inclusions demonstrating microwave response to temperature and tensile stress
• Mahdi Al-Farttoosi, PhD, 2016:
  Impact Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened or Repaired with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP)
• Amjed Saleh Mahmood, PhD, 2016:
  Processing-performance relationships for fibre-reinforced composites
• Richard Cullen, PhD, 2014:
  Air permeability of balsa core, and its influence on defect formation in resin infused sandwich laminates. 
• David Harman, PhD, 2013:
  An economic evaluation of the robotic tufting process considering the application of a novel composite wing rib post
• Nilmini Dissanayake, PhD, 2011:
  Life Cycle Assessment of flax fibres for the reinforcement of polymer matrix composites. 
• Amandeep Singh Virk, PhD, 2010:
  Numerical models for natural fibre composites with stochastic properties. 
• Ross Pomeroy, PhD, 2009:
  Permeability characterisation of continuous filament mats for resin transfer moulding. 
• Robert Blackburn, MPhil, 2009:
  The manufacture and testing of perforated composite acoustic panels.
• Krongkaew Mighanetara, PhD, 2008:
  Impact of metal mining on the water quality in the Tamar catchment. 
• Iosif Progoulakis, MPhil, 2004:
  Heated tooling for composites aerospace manufacture. 
• Craig Woodward, MPhil, 2002:
  The application of Poka Yoke to administrative functions within an organisation. 
• Joachim Gingele, PhD, 2001:
  Modelling business processes with links to ISO 9001. 
• Neil Pearce, PhD, 2001:
  Process-property-fibre distribution relationships in fibre-reinforced composites. 
• James Craen, MPhil, 2000:
  Resin infusion under flexible tooling. 
• Angela Newbury, PhD, 1994:
  An investigation into the applicability of NMR for cure monitoring of composites. 

Teaching

• MEng/BEng 3 MATS 347 (20 credits - module leader)
  Composites Design and Manufacture.
• MEng/BEng 3 MATS 348 (20 credits - module leader)
  Composites Engineering (coursework module which complements MATS 347). 
• MATS500 Advanced Composites Technology
• ... plus student project supervision.

• MSc MECH 512 Design for Structural Integrity
   ... specifically Condition Monitoring (CM) - Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) 
• MSc MECH 513 Smart Materials and Intelligent Structural Systems. 
• MSc MECH 524 Composite Engineering Systems
• MEng 4 Advanced Composites Technology
• BEng 3 STAD322 Civil and Structural Engineering - Construction and Design Project 
• BSc 3 MST 326 Quality Management and Safety Engineering.
• BSc 2 MATS 232 Marine Composites and Vessel Surveying. 

Contact John

( Room 008, Reynolds, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 586150
J.Summerscales@plymouth.ac.uk

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