Michael Jones

Michael Jones is a senior industry research fellow and deputy-director of the Centre for Advanced Defence Structures and Materials Experimentation. Specialising in aricraft structural intergrity in fields including small scale testing, large scale testing, extreme environment testing, fracture mechanics, small fatigue cracks, finite element modelling and quantitative fractography.

Michael's primary area of expertise is in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Group, having worked a number of large, high imoact structural tests. These include the Hawk Mk.127 lead-in-fighter full-scale fatigue test, PC-9 enhanced teardown, Swiss F/A-18 centre barrel full-scale damage tolerance test, F/A-18 spindle component test, as well as providing validation and verification support to the F-35 full-scale fatigue tests. Michael's research areas include specialising in small fatigue crack growth and more recently exploring this field with the application of machien learning. Michael's research also includes specialising in advanced methods of quantitative fractography.