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Professor Michael I. Friswell

College of Engineering,
Swansea University, Bay Campus, UK
Also: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

Education:
1982 BA Mathematics, Merton College, Oxford University
1987 MA Mathematics, Merton College, Oxford University
1991 PhD Mechanical Engineering, Aston University
1999 DSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales

Research Interests:
Structural dynamics; Morphing aircraft; Improvement of finite element models using measured data; Identification of damage location and extent using model based algorithms; Rotating machinery dynamics; Model reduction methods; Modelling and analysis of structures with viscoelastic damping; Dynamics of non-linear systems; Acoustic emission; Active vibration control

Career:
Sept 1982 - Sept 1987 Scientific Officer/Higher Scientific Officer, Admiralty Research Establishment, Portland
Sept 1987 - Aug 1993 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Aston University, Birmingham
Sept 1993 - Oct 1995 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales Swansea
Oct 1995 - Sept 1998 Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales Swansea
Sept 1998 - Sept 2000 Reader, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales Swansea
Oct 2000 - Sept 2002 Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales Swansea
Sept 2002 - Dec 2008 Sir George White Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol
From Jan 2009 Professor of Aerospace Structures, School of Engineering, Swansea University

Honors and Awards:
2011 Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
2014 ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize
2014 Royal Aeronautical Society Specialist Bronze Award
Selected Publications:
Book:
MI Friswell & JE Mottershead, Finite Element Model Updating in Structural Dynamics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, 286 pp., ISBN 0-7923-3431-0.
Journal Articles, etc. (for more see the link Prof. Michael I. Friswell):
X Wang, TL Hill, SA Neild, AD Shaw, H Haddad Khodaparast & MI Friswell, Model Updating Strategy for Structures with Localised Nonlinearities using Frequency Response Measurements. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 100, 1 February 2018, 940-961.
X Wang, H Haddad Khodaparast, AD Shaw, MI Friswell & G Zheng, Localization of Local Nonlinearities in Structural Dynamics using Spatially Incomplete Measured Data. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 99, 15 January 2018, 364-383.

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