Dr. Muhammad Kashif Khan

Dr. Muhammad Kashif Khan joined the Coventry University in August 2015 as Lecturer in Aerospace Structures. He was awarded a PhD scholarship from UK, in 2006, on a project funded by Airbus, Germany. The project was a joint consortium of Airbus, The Open University, UK and Cranfield University, UK. He was selected for two years postdoctoral study in Sichuan University, China through “Young International Scientist Award 2011” from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has worked in different aerospace companies and has published numerous papers on residual stresses, light weight engineering alloys, honeycomb structures and their behaviour up to extremely high loading cycles (10⁹-10¹²).

His other curricular interests are space sciences, space policy/ laws and near earth objects (NEOs). 

• Khan, M.K., Fitzpatrick, M.E., Hainsworth, S.V., and Edwards, L.E. (2010) ‘A Combined Experimental and Finite Element Approach for Determining Mechanical Properties of Aluminium Alloys by Nanoindentation’. Computational Materials Science 49 (4), 751-760.
• Khan, M.K., Fitzpatrick, M.E., Hainsworth, S.V., and Edwards, L.E. (2011) ‘Effect of Residual Stress on Nanoindentation Properties of Al 2024-T351 and cladding’. Computational Materials Science 50 (10), 2967–2976.
• Khan, M.K., Fitzpatrick, M.E., Hainsworth, S.V., Evans, A., and Edwards, L.E. (2011) ‘Application of Synchrotron X-rays and Nanoindentation for Determination of Residual Stress Field around Scratches’. Acta Materialia 59 (20), 7508–7520.
• Khan, M.K., Baig, T., and Mirza, S. (2012) ‘Experimental Investigation of In-plane and Out-of-plane Crushing of Aluminum Honeycomb’. Materials Science and Engineering: A 539, 135–142.
• Wang, Q.Y., Khan, M.K., and Bathias, C. (2012) ‘Current understanding of ultra-high cycle fatigue’. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 2 (3), 031002.
• Khan, M.K., and Wang, Q.Y. (2013) ‘Investigation of the Crack Initiation and Propagation behavior of stainless steels up to Very High Cycle Fatigue’. International Journal of Fatigue 54, 38–46. 
• You, X., Liu, Y.J., Khan, M.K., and Wang, Q.Y. (2015) ‘Low cycle fatigue behaviour and life prediction of Q345B steel and its welded joint’. Materials Research Innovations 19 (S5), S5-1299-S5-1303.
• Khan, M.K., Liu, Y.J., Wang, Q.Y, and Pyoun, Y.S. (2015) ‘Effect of small scale notches on very high cycle fatigue behavior of AISI 310 stainless steels’. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 38 (3), 290–299.
• Huang, Z.Y., Wagner, D., Wang, Q.Y., Khan, M.K., and Chaboche, J.L. (2016) ‘A low cycle fatigue model for low Carbon Manganese steel including the effect of dynamic strain aging’. Materials Science and Engineering: A 654, 77-84.
• Khan, M.K., Liu, Y.J., Wang, Q.Y., and Pyoun, Y.S. (2016) ‘Effect of ultrasonic nanocrystal surface modification on the characteristics of AISI 310 stainless steel up to very high cycle fatigue’. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures [in press].

• 2011 Korea-China Joint Research Program: 
  Very high cycle fatigue life of aircraft metals and alloys by nanocrystalline structure.
• Experimental Mechanics: Fatigue and fracture Mechanics of high strength alloy
• Scribe Marks on Fuselage Joints: Effect of small scale mechanical damage on residual stresses and fatigue cracking