Professor Matthew Cartmell

Professor of Nonlinear Mechanics

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Telephone: +44(0)114 2227715
Fax: +44(0)114 2227890

Profile

Matthew Cartmell worked as a research fellow at Edinburgh University from 1984-1986, after graduating with a PhD from there in 1984. He then held a series of permanent academic posts at Aberdeen, Swansea and Edinburgh Universities, before taking up the Chair of Applied Dynamics at Glasgow University in 1998.

He took up the James Watt Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University in 2006 and, in September 2012, the Chair of Nonlinear Mechanics at the University of Sheffield.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Part C.

Areas of Research

Matthew Cartmell's research covers five main areas:

Momentum exchange space tethers,
Symbolic computational dynamics,
Dynamics of smart systems,
Mechanical energy harvesting and transmission,
Theoretical dynamics of parametric and nonlinear oscillating systems.

His background is in the modelling of phenomena involving parametric and nonlinear vibration in engineering systems but has extended in the last two decades to the nonlinear dynamics of space-based systems and structures. More recently his research has looked at novel applications of nonlinear dynamical phenomena to terrestrial mechanical energy harvester design.

Research Project Areas

The dynamics of momentum exchange space tethers and webs
Theoretical constructs as a basis for a new symbolic computational dynamics
The dynamics of smart systems with applications to automotive engineering
The dynamics of novel mechanical energy harvesters
The theoretical dynamics of systems undergoing parametric and nonlinear oscillations

Teaching

MEC282 - Aerostructures and Performance

MEC330 - Vibrations