Deputy Head of School (Mechanical and Marine Engineering) Academic Member, Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre
Qualifications & background BSc - Physics (Imperial College, London, 1974) MPhil - Meteorology (Imperial College, London, 1977) Associate of the Royal College of Science Diploma of Membership of Imperial College PhD - Anisotropy of Heat Conduction in Fibre-Reinforced Composites (Plymouth Polytechnic/CNAA, 1985) Chartered Physicist (CPhys) Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Professional membership Member, Institute of Physics
Roles on external bodies Member of EPSRC College (composite materials). Panel member for EPSRC RNET4 (Renewable and New Energy Technologies). Sector Specialist for SWERDA projects Knowledge Exploitation South West and HEIF. Inspire SW Regional Technology Panel. National Composites Network, Strategy Group member. Aerospace Training South West (academic steering group).
Teaching interests
Introductory Materials Technology. Composites Analysis and Design. Composites Manufacture. Finite Element Analysis CPD (various levels) short courses in composites technology.
Staff serving as external examiners MPhil: Southampton (1997); Bristol (2003) PhD: Swansea (2009 & 2010); Manchester (2010); Portsmouth (2010)
Research interests Polymer composites design, manufacture and applications. Numerical modelling of heat transfer and flow processes. Thermo-physical behaviour of building materials and structures. Materials characterisation.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students As Director of Studies: Griffin (PhD) - 1995 Craen (MPhil) - 2000 Progoulakis (MPhil) - 2004 Lorraine (MPhil) - 2009 Blackburn (MPhil) - 2009 Pomeroy (PhD) - 2010
Current supervision: 3 PhD (2 as DoS).
Grants & contracts Recent Government / EU grants: EPSRC Industrial CASE Award (with Plastech), £112.6k, 2004-2007. DTI Advanced Technology Programme, Production of Off-Axis Thermoplastic Prepreg, £49k, 2005-2007. EU Framework 6 - ALCAS (Advanced Low-Cost Aircraft Structures) - Training and Dissemination, €100k, 2005-2009. EPSRC Industrial CASE Award (with Vestas Technology UK), £79.3k, 2006-2009. GWR Research Studentship (with QinetiQ), £55.6k, 2008-2011.
EU-Leonardo Partnership Programme, European Network for Plastics and Composites Training. €15k, 2009-11. Commercially-funded R&D contractsin progress within ACMC on testing, training, process development, design and analysis. Recent clients include Alvis, Smith & Nephew, Vestas, Babcock, ESL.
Teaching Company Schemes / Knowledge Transfer Partnerships:11 projects (6 as Lead Academic) since 1992. Programme with Pendennis (Jan 2000) and Plastech (Jan 2003) awarded TCS Certificates of Excellence. Recent programmes with Plastech, Dowty Aerospace and Kingfisher Boats (2004-2007, £113k).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove and MM Singh. Life Cycle impact Assessment of Flax Fibre for the Reinforcement of Composites. Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy (2009), 3 (3), 1-4.
Amandeep S Virk, J Summerscales, W Hall, SM Grove, ME Miles. Design, manufacture, mechanical testing and numerical modelling of an asymmetric composite crossbow limb. Composites: Part B 40 (2009), 249-257.
Y Wang and SM Grove. Modelling Microscopic Flow in Woven Fabric Reinforcements and its Application in Dual-Scale Liquid Composite Moulding. Composites: Part A 39 (2008), 843-855.
R Pomeroy, SM Grove, J Summerscales, Y Wang and A Harper. Measurement of permeability of continuous filament mat glass fibre reinforcements by saturated radial air flow. Composites Part A: 38 (May 2007), 1439-1443
SM Grove, E Popham, and ME Miles, An investigation of the skin/core bond in honeycomb sandwich structures using experimental techniques. Composites: Part A 35 (2006) 804-812.
SM Grove, I Progoulakis, T Searle, J Summerscales and P Healey. Heated Tooling for Aerospace Composites Manufacture. SAMPE Journal, 41 (7), 2005, pp 36-45.
CD Williams, SM Grove and J Summerscales. The Compression Response of FRP Plates during Manufacture by the RIFT Method. Composites Part A, 29A (1998), pp. 111-114.
CD Williams, SM Grove and J Summerscales. Resin Infusion under Flexible Tooling (RIFT): a review. Composites Part A, 27A (1996), pp. 517-524.
Conference Papers
P de Wilde, R Griffiths, SM Grove and S Goodhew. Progress in Simulation of a Thermal Probe: Modelling Sample to Probe Conductance. 11th International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference, Glasgow (July 2009).
RK Cullen, SM Grove and J Summerscales. Resin Infusion of Sandwich Structures - Core/Skin Interactions and Void Formation. ICCM-17, Edinburgh (July 2009).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove and MM Singh. Quantitative Life Cycle Analysis for Flax Fibres. ICCM-17, Edinburgh (July 2009).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove and MM Singh. Life cycle impact assessment of flax fibre for the reinforcement of composites. 2nd International Conference on Innovative Natural Fibre Composites for Industrial Applications, Rome (April 2009).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove and MM Singh. Life cycle impact assessment of flax fibre for the reinforcement of composites. International Conference on Manufacturing of Advanced Composites, Belfast (March 2009).
RK Cullen, SM Grove, J Summerscales and HN Dhakal. Flow convergence and void formation in resin-infused cored sandwich tructures. 9th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials (FPCM-9), Montréal, Canada (July 2008).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove, MM Singh. Infusion of natural vs. synthetic fibre composites. 9th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials (FPCM-9), Montréal, Canada (July 2008).
NPJ Dissanayake, J Summerscales, SM Grove and MM Singh. Comparative life cycle assessment for natural vs glass fibres as reinforcement for composites. Composites Innovation 2007 - improved sustainability and environmental performance, Barcelona (October 2007).
NPJ Dissanayake, HN Dhakal, SM Grove, MM Singh, J Summerscales. Optimisation of energy use in the production of flax fibre as reinforcement for composites. International Conference on Flax and Other Bast Plants (Fiber Foundations - Transportation, Clothing and Shelter in the Bioeconomy), Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), CANADA, 21-23 July 2008, Abstract #10, pages 47-58. ISBN-13: 978-0-9809664-0-4.
Y Wang, SM Grove and MG Anderson. Modelling Water Retention Characteristic in Unsaturated Soils. 1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2008).
Y Wang and SM Grove. Unsaturated modelling of dual scale flow in liquid composite moulding. 8th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials (FPCM8), Douai, France, 11-13 July 2006.
T Searle, J Spooner, SM Grove et al., Manufacture of Large Composite Structures by Resin Infusion. 24th International SAMPE Europe Conference, Paris (April 2003).
J Summerscales, SM Grove, TER Jones, TJ Searle and D Short (editiors). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, Plymouth, 12-14 July 1999. ISBN 1-870918-01-0.
JA Craen, SM Grove and J Summerscales. The compression response of fibre beds subjected to repeated loading cycles in the RIFT manufacturing process. 7th International Conference on Fibre-Reinforced Composites, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 15-17 April 1998. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, 1998, pp 120-127.
S Milton and SM Grove. Composite Sandwich Panel Manufacturing Concepts for a Lightweight Vehicle Chassis. Proc. 30th International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation (ISATA), Florence, Italy, June 1997.
D Katsanis and SM Grove. Design and Prototype Manufacture of a Composite Bicycle Frame. The Engineering of Sport, S. Haake (ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam, 1996, pp. 97-101.
Reports & invited lectures India Composites 2003 (Hyderabad) - Invited keynote speaker and workshop leader. SAMPE European Conference 2004 (Paris) – Invited session chairman. 8th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials 2006 (Douai, France) - session chairman.
