Daniel Mulvihill

Biography

Daniel is currently Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering within the School of Engineering. The following is a summary of his career to date: Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering (1.1), University of Limerick, Ireland (09/04 - 08/08) Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering Group, Department of Engineering Science (10/08 - 09/12) Irish Government Research Fellow, University of Limerick, Irish Composites Centre ICOMP, Dept. of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering (12/12 - 05/14) Visiting Researcher, EPFL Switzerland, Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics Modelling LAMMM, Institute for Mechanical Engineering (06/14 - 10/14) Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics, Department of Engineering (11/14 - 05/16)

Research Interest

Tribology Friction, contact, fretting, wear, nanotribology, frictional and bonded joints Composite Materials Conventional carbon fibre composites, nanocomposites, carbon nanotube and graphene based composites, composites forming, composites testing and characterisation, frictional interfaces in composites, bonded joints. Experimental Mechanics Materials testing and measurement, tribological testing, materials imaging techniques (Optical, XRAY, SEM) and analysis (Digital image and volume correlation etc.). Computational Modelling Finite Element Analysis, Molecular Dynamics etc.