Mr. Martin Vcelka
PHD Candidate
- Areas:
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Impact behaviour of materials and Structures
Mechanical Engineering
Electric Vehicle Group
Industrial Research Institute Swinburne - Office:
- EN 705
- Phone:
- +61 3 9214 4857
- E-Mail:
- mvcelka@swin.edu.au
- Campus:
- Hawthorn
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical with honours (Swinburne)
- Associate Diploma – Box Hill College
Industrial experience
- Product Design Engineer – Mack Valves (Australia)
- Project Engineer – Millsom Hoists (Australia)
PhD Research Area
Topic:
Composite Sandwich Panels – Deformation and Energy Absorption
Objective:
Composite sandwich panels are widely used in marine, aerospace, and automotive industries for their excellent mechanical attributes: outstanding strength to weight ratio and superior bending stiffness.
Optimising these combinations for high strength, energy absorption and low weight are key requirements to meeting the performance criteria for future automotive projects and automobile crashworthiness.
Research involves the use of sandwich structures made from composite skin sheets and aluminium foam core combinations. Systematic research is being conducted into the structural response and energy absorbing performance of these sandwich structures under quasi-static and impact loadings.
- Primary Co-Supervisor: Dr. Dong (Tracy) Ruan
- First Co-Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Durandet
- Second Co-Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Berndt
- Third Co-Supervisor: Dr. Igor Sbarski