Assistant Research Scientist
Aerospace Engineering
François-Xavier Bagnoud Aerospace Building 1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140Dr. Paul Davidson is an assistant research scientist in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining University of Michigan, Dr. Davidson was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Davidson was also researcher at General Electric Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. His primary research interests include composite mechanics, specifically on the damage, failure and fatigue of composite materials, advanced manufacturing methods, multi-scale analysis, low velocity and high velocity impact damage, and micro-mechanics. He has extensive industrial experience in the aerospace, wind energy and automotive sectors.
At GE, he worked on extreme event risk mitigation technologies that prevent catastrophic aerospace engine failure due to bird strike, blade out, impact and sand ingestion. Dr Davidson is currently working on, optimization of spacecraft structural performance using advanced Automated Fiber Placement methods, multi-scale fatigue of composite materials, Machine learning methods for Non-Destructive Evaluation of impact damage.
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Research Scientist, 2018 – current
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