Alistair Murray Ceng Email & Phone Number

An experienced aerospace and composites automation researcher who has secured funding from national and international R&D funding schemes and led numerous collaborative engineering projects from concept to completion. I have ensured significant savings and quality gains for the AMRC and our customers by continually optimising equipment, operational practices and web-based systems.Since 2014, I have led most of AMRC's Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) activities: winning grant and commercial funding; tendering for over £600k of hardware; optimising machine setups, maintenance and our approaches to program creation and data collection; and the layup of many complex thermoset, dry fibre and thermoplastic laminates. I've enthusiastically trained up several others regarding many of these activities and am regularly called upon by staff and externals for specialist advice, trend predictions and quotes.In this period I have advanced AMRC capabilities in relation to many of the most prominent industrial AFP challenges, with high economic and environmental implications, including: lightweighting, in-process inspection, numerical curvilinear design, complex geometry thermoplastic processing and in-situ consolidation.I am a distinguished, creative problem solver.In recent years I've also coded and introduced numerous cloud-based operational systems (JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, Python 3), resulting in productivity step changes, some reducing weekly efforts and stress for 100s of staff.I've otherwise gained vast composites design and manufacturing knowledge from hand-ons experience with:- Many processes, including prepreg and wet filament winding of pressure vessels (e.g. for hydrogen storage), pressing, Double Diaphragm Forming (DDF), Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM), autoclaving and automated cutting.- Design and manufacture of multifunctional structures, e.g. integration of several styles of ice protection systems into nacelle and aircraft wing leading edges.- Many mechanical, NDT and visual tests to assess material properties, defects and damage.- Fibre reinforced polymers, fibre metal laminates and sandwich panels. - Synthetic and bio fibres including: carbon, glass, Kevlar, Zylon, flax and bamboo.- Conventional and bioresins - a PFA and one partially derived from cashew nut shell liquid.

Listed skills include Composites, Manufacturing, Teamwork, Team Leadership, and 25 others.