Toby Mottram

Research

Toby Mottram is a Chartered engineer and a professor in the School of Engineering, where he has been working for over 20 years. His structural engineering research is with thin-walled components for novel and innovative lightweight construction. He is well-known for his contribution to knowledge and understanding that is enabling fibre reinforced polymer shapes by pultrusion to be exploited structurally. He is a member of the ASCE Standards Committee developing the standard 'Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) of Pultruded Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures'. He led the work towards the design provision for bolted connections. With six industrial partners Toby and PhD student Behrouz Zafari are involved with the Technology Strategy Board project 'Startlink Lightweight Building System'. Warwick University is providing the structural engineering support towards the development of energy-efficient, low-cost housing that is rapidly executed from a family of pultruded profiles, and innovative labour-saving assembly techniques. Working with Jawed Qureshi (Research Fellow) and Navroop Mathura (PhD student) in the School of Engineering, and with Access Design and Engineering and the Bridge Division of Mott MacDonald Ltd. Toby is principal investigator to the EPSRC project Connections and Joints for Buildings and Bridges of Fibre Reinforced Polymer. Further biographical details, a R&D literature database for PFRP shapes and systems and PP slide shows from conference/workshop presentations are to be found on his personal web-page at the School's website.

Professional Institutions

Toby is Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, past chairman to the Midland Counties Branch, and a past member on Council, Journal Editorial Board and Research Panel.

Teaching

Toby teaches modules on Forensic Engineering (with an emphasis on learning from failure) and Steel Structures that is informed by the structural Eurocodes. In 2011/12 his teaching is:

Recent Publications (2010-)

  • Pearson, I. T. and Mottram, J. T., (online) Finite Element Modelling Methodology for the Non-linear Stiffness of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap-joints. Part 2. Novel Shell Mesh to Minimise Analysis Time, Computer and Structures, pp. 8. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2011.10.005
  • Pearson, I. T. and Mottram, J. T. (online) Finite Element Modelling Methodology for the Non-linear Stiffness of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap-joints. Part 1. Evaluation of Key Parameters, Computer and Structures, pp. 13. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2011.10.006
  • Evernden, M. C. and Mottram, J. T. (2011) Closed-Form Equations for Flange Force and Maximum Deflection of Box-Beams of Fiber Reinforced Polymer with Partial Shear Interaction between Webs and Flanges. Advances in Structural Engineering, 14 (6), 991-1004.
  • Zafari, B. and Mottram, J. T. (online) Affect of Hot-Wet Aging on the Pin-Bearing Strength of a Pultruded Material with Polyester Matrix. Journal of Composites for Construction. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000258
  • Evernden, M. C. and Mottram, J. T. (in press) A Case for Houses in the UK to be Constructed of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Components. Construction Materials.
  • Mottram, J. T. (2011) Does Performance Based Design with Fibre Reinforced Polymer Components and Structures Provide any new Benefits and Challenges? The Structural Engineer, 89 (6), 23-27.
  • Mottram, J. T. and Zafari, B. (2011) Pin-Bearing Strengths for Design of Bolted Connections in Pultruded Structures. Structures and Buildings, 164 (5), 291–305.
  • Zafari, B. and Mottram, J. T. (2010) Pin-Bearing Strengths for the Design of Bolted Connections with Pultruded Material. In Proc. Fifth International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2010), Vol. 1., FRP for Future Structures, Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, Tsinghus University Press, pp. 99-102.

Full list of Toby's publications is available on Structures & Materials webpages.

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Toby Mottram

Prof. Toby Mottram
Head of Civil Research Group

Room A303
School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

T: +44(0)24 765 22528
F: +44(0)24 764 18922

J dot T dot Mottram at warwick dot ac dot uk