Contact Professor Gareth Appleby-Thomas
- Tel: +44 (0) 1793 785731
- Email: g.thomas@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Armour systems
- Defence manufacturing
- Test and Evaluation
- Vehicle Engineering & Mobility
- Weapons Engineering
Background
- 1999 – 2003: MSci in Physics and Astronomy, Durham University
- 2003 – 2007: D.Phil in Materials Science, Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Thesis title: Advanced Materials for Plasma Facing Components in Fusion Devices. Graduated 7th of November 2009. Thesis available at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8ba1ae1-f303-4c32-877e-dca421a3cb5c
- 2007 – 2012: Research Fellow, Dynamic Response Group, Cranfield University
- 2012 – 2015: Lecturer and Head of the Dynamic Response Group
- 2015 - 2017: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Dynamic Response Group
- 2017 - 2018: Senior Lecturer and Head of Survivability and Advanced Materials (CDE)
- 2018 - 2019: Reader and Head of Survivability and Advanced Materials (CDE)
- 2019 - 2021: Reader and Head of the Centre for Defence Engineering (CDE)
- 2021 - present: Professor of High Strain-Rate Material Response for Defence Applications and Head of the Centre for Defence Engineering (CDE)
Research opportunities
- Applications are invited from self-funded PhD students interested in the development of novel material solutions for defence applications
Current activities
As Head of the Centre for Defence Engineering, I am responsible for the growth and development of the Centre, with the overarching aim of creating world-leading academic knowledge within the multiple disciplines that make up defence engineering and technology.
My research in understanding the dynamic behaviour of materials provides a unique underpinning for this role and is particularly helpful when designing structures that are subjected to ballistic impact or shock-wave loading.
This element of my work is based around the fields of Survivability, Lethality and Materials - bridging across several of the groups within the Centre and more widely. A particular focus of my own research is an interest in the dynamic behaviour of materials used in armour systems, vehicular and aerospace structures, and munitions.
Further, I have a background in the shock behaviour of biological structures which has led to a substantial body of research including two PhDs, an MSc by Research and several publications to-date.
These interests, collectively encompassing material behaviour under extreme conditions, has led to an emerging focus on material behaviour under hypervelocity impact (2-8 km/s) - and has led to the opportunity to co-found a 'Consortium for Organotypic Research on Ageing and Microgravity' (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/chemical-engineering/healthcare/consortium-organotypic-research-ageing-microgravity.aspx) alongside Dr Alexandra Iordachescu from Birmingham.
I'm currently involved with the ShockWaves and Extreme Conditions (SWEC) group of the IoP (a founding member of the Committee, I served as Chair from 2018-2022) and am directly involved in the promotion of physics and engineering to the wider community: https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/shock-waves-extreme-conditions-group#gref
As part of the above, I have successfully stood up a series of SWEC research talks / seminars. Details are available at the following link (all are welcome to attend): https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=1044688&eventID=1689&traceRedir=2
Recordings of the some of the recent talks include
- 4th webinar - 'Modelling the bone response to extreme environments using organotypic cultures', Alexandra Iordachescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89QVmPvgTGo
- 5th webinar - 'Tissue analogue selection for ballistic applications', Gareth Appleby-Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr5m8iYUy0g
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Hes RAG, Painter JD & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2023) Optimal skin simulant for ballistic testing, Forensic Science International, 346 (May) Article No. 111653.
- Iordachescu A, Eisenstein N & Appleby-Thomas G. (2023) Space habitats for bioengineering and surgical repair: addressing the requirement for reconstructive and research tissues during deep-space missions, npj Microgravity, 9 Article No. 23.
- Vignjevic R, Djordjevic N, Galka A, Appleby Thomas G & Hughes K (2022) Constitutive model for fibre reinforced composites with progressive damage based on the spectral decomposition of material stiffness tensor, Composite Structures, 292 (July) Article No. 115596.
- Marchante Rodriguez V, Grasso M, Zhao Y, Liu H, Deng K, Roberts A & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2022) Surface damage in woven carbon composite panels under orthogonal and inclined high-velocity impacts, Journal of Composites Science, 6 (10) Article No. 282.
- David A, Morris S & Appleby-Thomas G (2021) Social Media User Relationship Framework (SMURF), Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 16 (1) Article No. 1.
- Fitzmaurice BC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Painter JD, Wood DC & Hazael R (2021) The effects of quasi-one-dimensional shock on Escherichia coli while controlling pressure and temperature, Icarus, 359 (May) Article No. 114221.
- Lesmana D, Arifurrahman F, Hameed A, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Santosa SP (2020) On the importance of the bullet jacket during the penetration process: reversed-ballistic experimental and numerical study, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 34 (5) 1871-1877.
- David A, Morris S & Appleby-Thomas G (2020) A two-stage model for social network investigations in digital forensics, Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 15 (August) Article No. 1.
- Rao P, Painter J, Appleby-Thomas G, Critchley R, Wood D, Roberts & Hazael R (2020) Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 146 (December) Article No. 103714.
- Henwood BJ & Appleby-Thomas G (2019) The suitability of Synbone® as a tissue analogue in ballistic impacts, Journal of Materials Science, 55 (7) 3022-3033.
- Muster M, Hameed A, Wood D, Appleby-Thomas G & Wasmer K (2019) Damping of post-impact vibrations, Applied Acoustics, 156 (December) 427-433.
- Agu HO, Hameed A & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2019) Comparison of the microstructure of machined and laser sintered shaped charge liner in the hydrodynamic regime, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 5 (4) 484-494.
- Agu HO, Hameed A, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Wood DC (2019) The dynamic response of dense 3 dimensionally printed polylactic acid, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 5 (December) 377-386.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Jaansalu K, Hameed A, Painter J, Shackel J & Rowley J (2019) A comparison of the ballistic behaviour of conventionally sintered and additively manufactured alumina, Defence Technology, 16 (2) 275-282.
- Hazael R, Matsuda S, Mori Y, Fitzmaurice BC, Appleby-Thomas G, Painter JD, Meersman F, Richaud M, Galas S, Saini NL, Ono F & McMillan PF (2019) Pressure tolerance of Artemia cysts compressed in water medium, High Pressure Research, 39 (2) Article No. GHPR 1575378.
- Millett J, Whiteman G, Park N, Case S & Appleby-Thomas G (2019) The effects of heat treatment upon the shock response of a copper-beryllium alloy, Acta Materialia, 165 (February) 678-685.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Fitzmaurice B, Hameed A, Painter J, Gibson M, Wood DC, Hazael R & Hazell PJ (2018) On differences in the equation-of-state for a selection of seven representative mammalian tissue analogue materials, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 77 (January) 586-593.
- Agu HO, Hameed A & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2018) Application of shell jetting analysis to determine the location of the virtual origin in shaped charges, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 122 (December) 175-181.
- Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hameed A, Barnes NR, Hughes A & Hazell PJ (2018) The variance on the shock response of a carbon fibre composite due to the orientation of the weave, Journal of Materials Science, 53 (16) 11415-11425.
- Fitzmaurice BC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Painter JD, Ono F, McMillan PF, Hazael R & Meersman F (2017) Tolerance of Artemia to static and shock pressure loading, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 950 (4) Article No. 042002.
- Millett JFC, Taylor P, Roberts A & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2017) The strength of two HMX based plastic bonded explosives during one dimensional shock loading, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 3 (1) 100-109.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hameed A, Painter J & Fitzmaurice B (2017) On the effects of powder morphology on the post-comminution ballistic strength of ceramics, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 100 (February) 46-55.
- Hazael R, Fitzmaurice BC, Foglia F, Appleby-Thomas GJ & McMillan PF (2017) Bacterial survival following shock compression in the GigaPascal range, Icarus, 293 (September) 1-7.
- Townsend D, Parry S, Bourne NK, Withers PJ, Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Hameed A (2017) On the compression of aluminium foam structures under shock, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793.
- Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Fitzmaurice BC, Hameed A, Millett JCF & Hazell PJ (2017) On the shock response of PCTFE (Kel-F 81 (R), AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793 (1) Article No. 050005.
- Painter JD, Fitzmaurice BC, Goff M, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC & Pinto T (2017) On a novel graded areal density solution to facilitate ramp wave generation in plate-impact studies, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793 (1) Article No. 060017.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Fitzmaurice BC, Hameed A, Wood DC, Gibson MC & Painter J (2017) The shock response and suitability of Synbone (R) as a tissue simulant, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793 (1) Article No. 140009.
- Fitzmaurice BC, Painter JD, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hazael R & McMillan PF (2017) On the response of Escherichia coli to high rates of deformation, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793 (1) Article No. 140002.
- Shackel J, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Painter J, Patel AK, Wielewski E, Hazell PJ & Terzulli LP (2017) On the influence of texture on spall evolution in the HCP materials Ti-6Al-4V and Zr, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1793 (1) Article No. 100010.
- Millett JCF, Brown EN, GrayIII GT, Bourne NK, Wood DC & Appleby-Thomas G (2016) The effects of changing chemistry on the shock response of basic polymers, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 2 (3) 326-336.
- Kader MA, Islam MA, Hazell PJ, Escobedo JP, Saadatfar M, Brown AD & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2016) Modelling and characterization of cell collapse in aluminium foams during dynamic loading, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 96 (October) 78-88.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hameed A, Painter J, Le-Seelleur V & Fitzmaurice BC (2016) Investigation of the high-strain rate (shock and ballistic) response of the elastomeric tissue simulant Perma-Gel, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 94 (August) 74-82.
- Petel OE, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Capozzi A, Nabavi A, Goroshin S, Frost DL & Hazell PJ (2016) Lateral stress evolution in chromium sulfide cermets with varying excess chromium, Journal of Applied Physics, 119 (13) Article No. 134903.
- Millett JCF, Lowe MR, Appleby-Thomas G & Roberts A (2016) The Mechanical and Optical Response of Polychlorotrifluoroethylene to One-Dimensional Shock Loading, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A - Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 47 (2) 697-705.
- Goff M, Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Stennett C & Taylor P (2015) Gas gun ramp loading of Kel-F 81 targets using a ceramic graded areal density flyer system, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 80 (June) 152-161.
- Crouch IG, Appleby-Thomas G & Hazell PJ (2015) A study of the penetration behaviour of mild-steel-cored ammunition against boron carbide ceramic armours, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 80 (June) 203-211.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hameed A & Leighs JA (2015) On the ballistic response of an aerospace-grade composite panel to non-spheroidised fragment simulants, Composite Structures, 119 (January) 90-98.
- Goff M, Burns M, Gustavsen R, Stennett C, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2014) Effects observed when using metallic flyers and barriers with the embedded particle velocity gauge technique, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (14) Article No. 142017.
- Hameed A, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hazell PJ & Jaansalu KM (2014) On the ballistic response of comminuted ceramics, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (11).
- Leighs JA, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Goff MJ, Hameed A & Hazell PJ (2014) The bactericidal effect of shock waves, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (18) Article No. 182026.
- Taylor P, Goff M, Hazell PJ, Leighs J, Wood D & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2014) Ramp wave generation using graded areal density ceramic flyers and the plate impact technique, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (14) Article No. 142016.
- Kister G, Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Leighs JA, Goff M, Barnes NR & Hazell PJ (2014) An overview on the effect of manufacturing on the shock response of polymers, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (19).
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wielewski E & Escobedo JP (2014) The shock and spall response of three industrially important hexagonal close-packed metals: magnesium, titanium and zirconium, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372 (2023).
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Toone S (2014) Ballistic compaction of a confined ceramic powder by a non-deforming projectile: experiments and simulations, Materials and Design, 56 (April) 943-952.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC & Painter JD (2014) The shock and spall response of AA 7010-T7651, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (Part 11) Article No. 112032.
- Petel OE, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hameed A, Capozzi A, Goroshin S, Frost DL & Hazell PJ (2014) Lateral stress evolution in Chromium Sulfide, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (18).
- Mustey A, Leighs JA, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wood DC, Hazael R, McMillan PF & Hazell PJ (2014) The effect of hydrostatic vs. shock pressure treatment of plant seeds, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (18).
- Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Leighs JA, Goff M, Barnes NR, Hughes A & Hazell PJ (2014) The use of lateral gauges in the assessment of shear strength in a carbon fibre composite, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (11) Article No. 112069.
- Neal WD, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Collins GS (2014) Meso-scopic deformation in brittle granular materials, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 500 (PART 11).
- Wielewski E, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Hameed A (2013) An experimental investigation into the micro-mechanics of spall initiation and propagation in Ti-6Al-4V during shock loading, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 578 331-339.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Philbey D & Tolman W (2013) The effect of gilding jacket material on the penetration mechanics of a 7.62 mm armour-piercing projectile, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 54 11-18.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Sheldon RP, Stennett C, Hameed A & Wilgeroth JM (2013) The high strain-rate behaviour of selected tissue analogues, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 33.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wielewski E, Siviour C & Stennett C (2012) On the shock response of the magnesium alloy elektron 675, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 983-986.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Roberts A (2012) The effect of gauge misalignment on the measurement of lateral stress, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 462-465.
- Eliot J, Harris EJ, Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Winter RE & Wood DC (2012) Experimental and computational investigation of lateral gauge response in polycarbonate, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 458-461.
- Wood DC, Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ & Barnes NR (2012) The shock response of a tape wrapped carbon fiber composite, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 183-186.
- De'ath JM, Proud WG, Millett JCF & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) Phase change in 080M40 plain carbon steel, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 1537-1540.
- Leighs JA, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) On the shock response of Pisum sativum and Lepidium sativum, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 149-152.
- Wilgeroth JM, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) The dynamic response and shock-recovery of porcine skeletal muscle tissue, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 (1) 139-142.
- Jones DR, Eakins DE, Hazell PJ, Chapman DJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) Development of the gas gun driven expanding cylinder technique, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1426 1141-1144.
- Wilgeroth JM, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) On the behaviour of porcine skeletal muscle tissue under shock compression, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 50 83-89.
- Leighs JA, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) The effect of shock loading on the survival of plant seeds, Icarus, 220 (1) 23-28.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wielewski E, Stennett C & Siviour C (2012) The influence of microstructure on the shock and spall behaviour of the magnesium alloy, Elektron 675, Acta Materialia, 60 (17) 6042-6050.
- Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) The impact of structural composite materials. Part 1: ballistic impact, Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 47 (7) 396-405.
- Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2012) More on penetration of ceramic based targets by non-deforming projectiles, Advances in Applied Ceramics, 111 (3) 171-173.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ & Hazell PJ (2012) The impact of structural composite materials. Part 2: hypervelocity impact and shock, Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 47 (7) 406-418.
- Wood DC, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Barnes NR (2012) Shock propagation in a tape wrapped carbon fibre composite, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 43 (9) 1555-1560.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Wood DC, Wilgeroth JM & Leighs JA (2012) On the effects of lateral gauge misalignment in shocked targets, Review of Scientific Instruments, 83 (6).
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Cleave R (2012) Penetration mechanisms in glass laminate/resin structures, Materials and Design, 34 541-551.
- Leighs JA, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Stennett C, Hameed A, Wilgeroth JM & Hazell PJ (2012) A sealed capsule system for biological and liquid shock-recovery experiments, Review of Scientific Instruments, 83 (11) Article No. 115113.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Trinquant X & Chapman DJ (2011) In-fiber shock propagation in Dyneema, Journal of Applied Physics, 110 (4) Article No. 043504.
- Shepherd CJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Wilgeroth JM, Hazell PJ & Allsop DF (2011) On the response of ballistic soap to one-dimensional shock loading, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 38 (12) 981-988.
- Nanda H, Appleby-Thomas G J, Wood D C & Hazell P J (2011) Ballistic behaviour of explosively shattered alumina and silicon carbide targets, Advances in Applied Ceramics, 110 (5) 287-292.
- Wood D C, Hazell P J, Appleby-Thomas G J & Barnes N R (2011) Shock behaviour of a phenolic resin, Journal of Materials Science, 46 (18) 5991-5999.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Dahini G (2011) On the response of two commercially-important CFRP structures to multiple ice impacts, Composite Structures, 93 (10) 2619-2627.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Wilgeroth JM, Shepherd CJ, Wood DC & Roberts A (2011) On the dynamic behavior of three readily available soft tissue simulants, Journal of Applied Physics, 109 (8) Article No. 084701 084701-1-084701-6.
- Hazell PJ, Beveridge C, Groves K & Appleby-Thomas G (2010) The shock compression of microorganism-loaded broths and emulsions: Experiments and simulations, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 37 (4) 433-440.
- Wilgeroth JM, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas GJ (2010) The shock response of a rendered porcine fat, Journal of Applied Physics, 108 (9).
- Appleby-Thomas GJ & Hazell PJ (2010) A study on the strength of an armour-grade aluminum under high strain-rate loading, Journal of Applied Physics, 107 (12) Article No. 123508 123508-1-123508-12.
- Hazell PJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Herlaar K & Painter J (2010) Inelastic deformation and failure of tungsten carbide under ballistic-loading conditions, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 527 (29-30) 7638-7645.
- Hazell, P. J., Appleby-Thomas, G. J., Kister & G. (2010) Impact, penetration, and perforation of a bonded carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic composite panel by a high-velocity steel sphere: An experimental study, Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 45 (6) 439-450.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Wilgeroth JM & Wood DC (2010) On the interpretation of lateral manganin gauge stress measurements in polymers, Journal of Applied Physics, 108 (3) Article No. 033524 033524-1-033524-9.
- Millett JCF, Bourne NK, Chu MQ, Jones IP, Gray III GT & Appleby-Thomas G (2010) The role of aging on the mechanical and microstructural response of aluminum 6061 to one-dimensional shock loading, Journal of Applied Physics, 108 (7) Article No. 073502.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Millett J & Bourne NK (2009) Deviatoric response of an armour-grade aluminium alloy, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1195 (1) 533-536.
- Stennett C, Cooper GA, Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas G (2009) Initiation of secondary explosives measured using embedded electromagnetic gauges, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1195 (1) 267-270.
- Shepherd CJ, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Allsop DF (2009) The dynamic behaviour of ballistic gelatin, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1195 (1) 1399-1402.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Stennett C (2009) The variation in lateral and longitudinal stress gauge response within an RTM 6 epoxy resin under one-dimensional shock loading, Journal of Materials Science, 44 (22) 6187-6198.
- Hazell PJ & Appleby-Thomas G (2009) A study on the energy dissipation of several different CFRP-based targets completely penetrated by a high velocity projectile, Composite Structures, 91 (1) 103-109.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Stennett C, Cooper G, Helaar K & Diederen AM (2009) Shock propagation in a cemented tungsten carbide, Journal of Applied Physics, 105 (6) Article No. 064916 064916-1-064916-9.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Stennett C (2009) The variation in lateral and longitudinal stress gauge response within an RTM 6 epoxy resin under One-dimensional shock loading, Journal of Materials Science, 44 (22) 6187-6198.
- Thomas GJ, Vincent R, Matthews G, Dance B & Grant PS (2008) Interface topography and residual stress distributions in W coatings for fusion armour applications, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 477 (1-2) 35-42.
Conference Papers
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Ullah Khan I, Painter J, Zioupos P, Lordachescu A & Hes RAG (2023) Characterisation of human tissues analogues for ballistic testing. In: 56th UK Human Responses to Vibration Conference, 2023, Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport, 29-30 August 2023.
- Wood D, Appleby-Thomas G, Fitzmaurice B, Franceskides C, Shanker T, Zioupos P & Samra A (2016) On the shock behaviour and response of Ovis Aries vertebrae. In: 22nd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB 2016), Lyon, 10-13 July 2016.
- Appleby-Thomas G, Hameed A, Fitzmaurice B, Painter J & Wood D (2016) On the selection of tissue simulants for ballistic testing. In: 29th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2016, Edinburgh, 9-13 May 2016.
- Appleby-Thomas G, Hameed A, Wood D, Rowley J & Jaansalu K (2016) On the ballistic response of rapidly-prototyped alumina. In: 29th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2016, Edinburgh, 9-13 May 2016.
- Islam M, Escobedo J, Hazell P, Appleby-Thomas G & Quadir M (2015) Characterization of closed-cell aluminium foams subjected to compressive loading. In: TMS 2015, 144th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Orlando, FL, 15-19 March 2015.
- Appleby-Thomas G, Fitzmaurice B, Hameed A, Wood D, Gibson M & Painter J (2015) On the suitability of Synbone® as a tissue simulant.. In: 19th Biennial International Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SCCM-2015), Tampa, Florida, 14-19 June 2015.
- Painter JD, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ, Winter RE, Harris EJ , Owen GD & Wood DC (2012) On the importance of encapsulation environment for lateral gauges. In: 17th Biennial international Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Chicago, IL, 26 June - 1 July 2011.
- Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell P J, Stennett C, Cooper G & Cleave R (2009) The dynamic behaviour of a modified polyurethane resin. In: DYMAT 2009 : 9th International Conference on the Mechanical and Physical Behaviour of materials under Dynamic Loading, Brussels, 7-11 September 2011.
- Chu M, Millett JCF, Bourne NK, Jones IP, Appleby-Thomas GJ, Hazell PJ & Gray III GT (2009) Shock loading response of 5083 aluminium. In: SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2009, Albuquerque, NM, 1 June 2009.
- Herlaar K, Diederen A, Appleby-Thomas G & Hazell P (2008) The shock response of a cemented tungsten carbide. In: 24th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, 22-26 September 2008.
- Herlaar K, Diederen A, Appleby-Thomas G & Hazell P (2008) Ballistic impact experiments of tungsten carbide projectiles onto tungsten carbide targets. In: 24th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, 22-26 September 2008.