Professor John Durodola

Head of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences - Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment

Research activities

Details of my research

Professor Durodola’s main interest is in the predictive modelling of the mechanical behaviour of materials under various conditions for effective and efficient design of engineering components. His areas of interest include:

  • Residual stresses
  • Creep
  • Fatigue
  • Joining
  • Springback during forming
  • Composites and functionally graded materials
  • Non-destructive evaluation
  • Noise vibration and harshness in vehicles

He has been involved in a number of multi-disciplinary research projects for power plant, automotive and aerospace industries. 

Professor Durodola did his PhD at Imperial College, London, where his work led to new Hermitian and Overhauser boundary elements. Whilst at Oxford University, he developed a generalisation of McLean’s creep model to include the effect of inherent residual stresses and possibilities for instantaneous matrix plastic flow upon loading. Since joining Oxford Brookes University in 1994, one of his achievements is the development of a method for simultaneous determination of tensile and compressive material behaviours from bend tests only.

John is also Head of the Stress and Materials, Analysis, Research and Testing (SMART) Group at Oxford Brookes University.

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Recent publications

  • Puri, R S , Bell, A J , Durodola, J , Rudnyi, E B and Korvink, J G . ( 2009 ). Reduced order fully coupled, structural-acoustic analysis via implicit moment matching. Applied Mathematical Modelling. (11) View more details »
  • Fessel, G , Broughton, J , Fellows, N , Durodola, J and Hutchinson, A . ( 2009 ). Fatigue performance of metallic reverse-bent joints. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures. (9) View more details »
  • Fellows, N A , Harris, A , Durodola, J and Beevers, A . ( 2008 ). Effects of design and adhesive modulus on the torsional stiffness of automotive structures. Proc. IMechE Part D:J.Automobile Engineering. (8) View more details »
  • Fellows, N , Durodola, J , Harris, A and Beevers, A . ( 2008 ). Effect of design and adhesive modulas on the torsional stiffness of automotive structures. Proc. IMechE Part D:J.Automobile Engineering. () View more details »
  • Fessel, G , Broughton, J , Fellows, N , Durodola, J and Hutchinson, A . ( 2007 ). Evaluation of different lap-shear joint geometries for automotive applications. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. () View more details »

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