Contact Dr Wenli Liu
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758290
- Email: wenli.liu@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Structures
- Composites
- Aerospace Materials
- Structures and Materials
Background
Dr Wenli Liu is a Lecturer in Structural Integrity and Design, and, in addition to being a highly qualified academic, she has gained practical research and design experience in the aircraft industry over the past 20 years.
In 1993, after obtaining her first degree in Aircraft Structures from the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi'an, China, she was recruited to work for five years as a Stress Engineer for the Chinese National Aircraft Structural Strength Institute. She then returned to university to complete two higher degrees: her MSc in Aircraft Design in 2001 from NPU, Xi'an, China, and in 2005 her PhD in Aerospace Composite Structures from the University of Bath, in the UK.
Wenli successfully received funding by the EPSRC as a post-doctoral researcher working on optimisation, manufacture and damage tolerance analysis of novel composites for aircraft application (2005-2007 and 2010-2013). Airbus funded her for two years secondment (2007-2009) at their Filton industrial site to develop an integrated design method for whole composite aircraft wing layout.
Dr Liu's main research interests include Finite Element modelling of composite structures and failure, structural optimisation, automated fibre placement and tow steering, buckling and postbuckling of stiffened wing panels and fuselage.
Current activities
Tow Steering
Wing Structural Optimisation
Delamination
Finite Element Modelling
Compression After Impact
Progessive Failure
XFEM
Clients
- Airbus SE
- GKN Ltd
- Leonardo S.p.A. (Agusta Westland)
- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd
- McLaren Automotive Limited
- Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC
Publications
Conference Papers
- Liu L, Liu W & Guo S. (2022). Experimental and numerical analysis of post-buckling delamination of composite plate under fatigue loads
- Xu F, Liu W & Irving PE. (2017). Fatigue life and failure of impact-damaged carbon fibre composites under compressive cyclic loads
- Jones E & Liu W. (2017). Effect of core materials on compression after impact strength of composite sandwich panels subject to low velocity impact damage
- Liu W. (2014). Optimised stiffened composite panels of variable fibre tows
- Butler R, Baker N, Liu W & Rhead A. (2009). Damage Tolerance of Buckling Optimized Variable Angle Tow Panels
- Liu W & Butler R. (2007). Optimum Buckling Design for Composite Wing Cover Panels with Manufacturing Constraints
- Liu W, Butler R, Mileham AR & Green AJ. (2005). 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference
