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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
5423
World Ranking
2054
National Ranking
150

Overview

John P. Dear is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily centered in Engineering and Materials Science. Their extensive work contributes to the fields of Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites
  • Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
  • High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
  • Fiber-reinforced polymer composites
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Epoxy Resin Curing Processes
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies

John P. Dear has published numerous papers in specialized journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "A three-dimensional elastic-plastic damage model for predicting the impact behaviour of fibre-reinforced polymer-matrix composites," 2020, Composites Part B Engineering
  • "3D printing of biodegradable polymers and their composites - Current state-of-the-art, properties, applications, and machine learning for potential future applications," 2024, Progress in Materials Science
  • "The behaviour of thermoplastic and thermoset carbon fibre composites subjected to low-velocity and high-velocity impact," 2020, Journal of Materials Science
  • "Comparison of different quasi-static loading conditions of additively manufactured composite hexagonal and auxetic cellular structures," 2022, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • "Impact response of laminated glass with varying interlayer materials," 2020, International Journal of Impact Engineering

Frequent collaborators include Haibao Liu, A. J. Kinloch, B.R.K. Blackman, Jin Zhou, and Jun Liu, indicating ongoing partnerships in related research areas.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, most notably:

  • Applied Composite Materials
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture
  • Composite Structures
  • Thin-Walled Structures

Best Publications

  • A study of the collapse of arrays of cavities

    J. P. Dear;J. E. Field

  • Numerical study of the solution heat treatment, forming, and in-die quenching (HFQ) process on AA5754

    Omer El Fakir;Liliang Wang;Daniel Balint;John P. Dear

  • The effects of target compliance on liquid drop impact

    J. E. Field;J. P. Dear;J. E. Ogren

  • The failure of fibre composites and adhesively bonded fibre composites under high rates of test: Part I Mode I loading-experimental studies

    B. R. K. Blackman;J. P. Dear;A. J. Kinloch;H. Macgillivray

  • Studies of two-dimensional liquid-wedge impact and their relevance to liquid-drop impact problems

    John Edwin Field;M. B. Lesser;J. P. Dear

  • On the blast resistance of laminated glass

    P.A. Hooper;R.A.M. Sukhram;B.R.K. Blackman;J.P. Dear

  • High‐speed photography of surface geometry effects in liquid/solid impact

    J. P. Dear;J. E. Field

  • Gas compression and jet formation in cavities collapsed by a shock wave

    J. P. Dear;J. E. Field;A. J. Walton

  • The mechanical behaviour of poly(vinyl butyral) at different strain magnitudes and strain rates

    P. A. Hooper;B. R. K. Blackman;J. P. Dear

  • Prediction and measurement of residual stresses and distortions in fibre laser welded Ti-6Al-4V considering phase transformation

    J. Ahn;E. He;L. Chen;R.C. Wimpory

  • The calculation of adhesive fracture energies from double-cantilever beam test specimens

    B. Blackman;J. P. Dear;A. J. Kinloch;S. Osiyemi

  • Impact damage processes in composite sheet and sandwich honeycomb materials

    J.P. Dear;H. Lee;S.A. Brown

  • A three-dimensional elastic-plastic damage model for predicting the impact behaviour of fibre-reinforced polymer-matrix composites

    Haibao Liu;Jun Liu;Yuzhe Ding;Zoe E. Hall

  • The Effects of Air and Underwater Blast on Composite Sandwich Panels and Tubular Laminate Structures

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  • Parametric optimisation and microstructural analysis on high power Yb-fibre laser welding of Ti–6Al–4V

    J. Ahn;L. Chen;C.M. Davies;J.P. Dear

  • Comparison of different quasi-static loading conditions of additively manufactured composite hexagonal and auxetic cellular structures

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  • The effect of Ar and He shielding gas on fibre laser weld shape and microstructure in AA 2024-T3

    Joseph Ahn;Enguang He;Li Chen;John Dear

  • The failure of fibre composites and adhesively bonded fibre composites under high rates of test: Part III Mixed-mode I/II and mode II loadings

    B. R. K. Blackman;J. P. Dear;A. J. Kinloch;H. MacGillivray

  • The behaviour of thermoplastic and thermoset carbon fibre composites subjected to low-velocity and high-velocity impact

    Haibao Liu;Jun Liu;Yuzhe Ding;Jie Zheng

  • Impact damage processes in reinforced polymeric materials

    John P. Dear;Samuel A. Brown

  • Ballistic impact behaviour of glass fibre reinforced polymer composite with 1D/2D nanomodified epoxy matrices

    Nadiim Domun;Cihan Kaboglu;Keith R. Paton;John P. Dear

  • Effect of filler metal feed rate and composition on microstructure and mechanical properties of fibre laser welded AA 2024-T3

    J. Ahn;L. Chen;E. He;C.M. Davies

  • Deformation and damage mechanisms of laminated glass windows subjected to high velocity soft impact

    Iman Mohagheghian;Y Wang;J Zhou;L Yu

  • Delamination properties of laminated glass windows subject to blast loading

    Paolo Del Linz;Paolo Del Linz;Paul A. Hooper;Hari Arora;Yi Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bamber R.K. Blackman
Bamber R.K. Blackman Imperial College London
Anthony J. Kinloch
Anthony J. Kinloch Imperial College London
Jin Zhou
Jin Zhou Shandong University of Technology
Andrew D. Morris
Andrew D. Morris University of Edinburgh
Jianguo Lin
Jianguo Lin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Zhongyun Fan
Zhongyun Fan Brunel University London
John E. Field
John E. Field University of Cambridge
Brian Falzon
Brian Falzon RMIT University
Ying Wang
Ying Wang Tongji University
D.S. Balint
D.S. Balint Imperial College London

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