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Dr Khurram Wadee

Senior Lecturer

 M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk

 (Streatham) 3654

 01392 723654

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Overview

I graduated from Imperial College with a first class Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering in 1989. I then undertook research in the same department and got my doctorate in 1993. After three further years at Imperial I came to Exeter in 1995 as a lecturer. I became a senior lecturer in 2003. I am a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Scientist, a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.  I am the Programme Lead for Civil Engineering.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the application of the theory of elastic stability to structures i.e. nonlinear structural mechanics. In particular I am interested in the study of localized buckling patterns. Current research fronts include: 

  • Double-scale perturbations;
  • Variational methods;
  • Extensions to the Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin techniques;
  • Application of solitary-wave-type solutions to structural problems;
  • Multi-modal homoclinic solutions (multi-humped localizations as soliton interactions). Use of exponential asymptotics.
  • Modelling of elastic tubes in bending: localization and kink formation.
  • Wrinkling and pattern formation in thin elastic layers.

I would be interested in supervising Ph.D. studentships in any of the above areas and in particular the last few pertaining to the modelling of the buckling of graphene using novel analytical and numerical techniques.

Teaching Interests

Engineering Mathematics; Solid Mechanics; Theory of Elasticity; Structural Engineering.

Announcing the new Exeter MSc in Structural Engineering, first intake September 2015.

Qualifications          : B.Eng., A.C.G.I., Ph.D., D.I.C., C.Eng., C.Math., C.Sci., M.I.Struct.E., M.I.M.A.

Research grants

GR/N05666/01 `Elastic localization and restabilization in the post-buckling of model structures' 2000-03 funded by EPSRC, value: GBP138K.

See Dr Wadee’s personal web page for further information including a full publications list.

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Publications

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2016

2015

2012

2009

  • Armitage PR, Bekers LV, Wadee MK. (2009) The detection of micro-cracks in concrete by the measurement of ultrasonic harmonic generation and inter-modulation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Solutions, Padua, Italy, 22nd - 25th Jun 2009.

2008

  • Scarpa F, Smith CW, Ruzzene M, Wadee MK. (2008) Mechanical properties of auxetic tubular truss-like structures, Physica Status Solidi (B), volume 245, no. 3, pages 584-590, DOI:10.1002/pssb.200777715.
  • Scarpa F, Smith CW, Ruzzene M, Wadee MK. (2008) Mechanical properties of auxetic tubular truss-like structures, Phys. Status Solidi B, volume 245, pages 584-590. [PDF]
  • Scarpa F, Smith CW, Ruzzene M, Wadee MK. (2008) Mechanical properties of auxetic tubular truss-like structures, Phys. Status Solidi B, volume 245, pages 584-590. [PDF]

2007

2006

  • Wadee MA, Wadee MK, Bassom AP. (2006) Analytical modelling of non-uniform deformation in thin-walled orthotropic tubes under pure bending, ISTS-11: Eleventh international symposium and IIW international conference on tubular structures, Quebec, Canada, 31st Aug - 2nd Sep 2006. [PDF]
  • Wadee MA, Wadee MK, Bassom AP. (2006) Analytical modelling of non-uniform deformation in thin-walled orthotropic tubes under pure bending, Welding in the World, volume 50, pages 179-186. [PDF]
  • Wadee MK, Aigner AA, Bassom AP, Wadee MA. (2006) Longitudinally inhomogeneous deformation patterns in isotropic tubes under pure bending, Proceedings of The Royal Society A - Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, volume 462, no. 2067, pages 817-838, DOI:10.1098/rspa.2005.1596.

2005

2004

2003

  • Wadee MK. (2003) Stability of localized buckling solutions in a model structure, 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2003), Sydney, Australia, 7th - 11th Jul 2003.
  • Wadee MK. (2003) Stability of localized buckling solutions for dead and rigid loading in a model structure, Modern Mechanics and Mathematics: An International Conference in Honour of Ray Ogden's 60th Birthday, University Of Keele, 26th - 28th Aug 2003. [PDF]
  • Coman CD, Bassom AP, Wadee MK. (2003) Elasto-plastic localised responses in one-dimensional structural models, J ENG MATH, volume 47, no. 2, pages 83-100, DOI:10.1023/A:1025856602682.

2002

  • Wadee MK, Coman CD, Bassom AP. (2002) Application of beyond-all-orders asymptotics to a one-dimensional buckling model, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NONLINEAR MECHANICS, pages 683-686. [PDF]
  • Wadee MK, Bassom AP, Coman CD. (2002) Solitary wave interaction phenomena in a strut buckling model incorporating restabilisation, Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, volume 163, no. 1-2, pages 26-48, DOI:10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00350-0.
  • Coman CD, Wadee MK, Bassom AP. (2002) Solitary wave interaction in a beam on a nonlinear elastic foundation, The 14th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg Va, Usa.

2001

  • Wadee MK. (2001) Localized buckling, double-scale perturbations and exponential asymptotics, The twelfth international colloquium on differential equations, University Of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 18th - 23rd Aug 2001.

2000

1999

  • Wadee MK, Bassom AP. (1999) Perturbation methods relating to homoclinic solutions in a strut buckling model, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University Of Bath.
  • Wadee MK, Bassom AP. (1999) Effects of exponentially small terms in the perturbation approach to localized buckling, P ROY SOC LOND A MAT, volume 455, no. 1986, pages 2351-2370, DOI:10.1098/rspa.1999.0407.
  • Wadee MK. (1999) The elastic strut on an elastic foundation: A model localized buckling problem, Localization and solitary waves in solid mechanics, World Scientific Publishing, 31-53. [PDF]

1998

  • Wadee MK. (1998) Galerkin solutions to localization in elastic and visco-elastic buckling problems, The fourth international conference on mathematical and numerical aspects of wave propagation, Colorado School Of Mines, 1st - 5th Jun 1998.
  • Wadee MK. (1998) On the combination of symbolic computation and numerical methods in structural stability, The sixth ACME annual conference, Exeter.

1997

1996

  • Wadee MK. (1996) Fat-fractal scaling in an area-preserving structural mapping, COMPUT STRUCT, volume 58, no. 4, pages 851-858, DOI:10.1016/0045-7949(95)00177-I.
  • Wadee MK. (1996) Elastic localized buckling of long uniform structures under axial compression, Third biennial European joint conference on engineering systems design & analysis, Montpellier, France.

1993

1991

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