Tommy Lodge

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Research Student

t.j.lodge@sheffield.ac.uk

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Tommy Lodge
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
D105/Buxton
Cedus Labs
Harpur Hill
Buxton, Derbyshire
SK17 9NL
Profile

Tommy graduated from The University of Sheffield with an MPhys degree in Physics in 2012. He then spent a number of years working in industry before returning to the University as Lab Manager for the Blast and Impact Dynamics Group's research lab in Buxton. He is responsible for day to day running of the lab, working closely with industry partners to deliver complex research projects and testing regimes in a safe environment.

Beginning in 2019, Tommy is also currently studying for a PhD looking to understand the effects different soil conditions have on the loading due to a buried charge.

Qualifications

MPhys Physics from the University of Sheffield

Research interests

Research Project: Understanding the threat posed by buried charges in different operating environments

This work aims to investigate the risk posed by buried charges in both the littoral and subarctic environment, and combine this with existing data to widen the knowledge of the affect geotechnical conditions have on the loading from a buried charge. This will be achieved through a meta analysis of existing data in the literature and a series of experiments using the Characterisation of Blast Loading (CoBL) apparatus housed at the Universities Blast labs in Buxton.

Publications

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

  • Waddoups R, Clarke S, Curry R, Tyas A, Lodge T, Mullins J & Cordell J (2024) Utilising Digital Image Correlation for the Characterisation of Ground Shock from Buried Charges. CORD: Defence and Security Doctoral Symposium 2023, 31 January 2024 - 1 February 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lodge T, Clarke S, Barr A, Curry R, Farrimond D, Waddoups R, Tetlow L & Tyas A (2023) Recent development and research at the University of Sheffield blast lab in Buxton, UK. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Military Aspects of Blast and Shock (MABS26). Wollongong, Australia, 4 December 2023 - 4 December 2023. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farrimond D, Ratcliff A, Dennis A, Rigby S, Tyas A, Clarke S, Lodge T & Tolman W (2023) MicroBlast - a benchmarking study of gramme-scale explosive trials. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Military Aspects of Blast and Shock (MABS26). Wollongong, Australia, 4 December 2023 - 4 December 2023. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lodge T, Waddoups R, Tyas A, Clarke S, Rigby S, Langdon G, Gant M & Elgy I (2023) Preliminary results of shallow buried charge testing on carbonate based sand. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Protective Structures (ICPS6) RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Waddoups R, Lodge T, Farrimond D & Tyas A (2024) Dstl Cased UNDEX / FloatEX RIS download Bibtex download

Presentations

  • Lodge T, Rigby S, ALotaibi S, Barr A, Clarke S, Langdon G & Tyas A Blast analysis in 280 characters How social media can be used to predict the size of the Beirut blast. Online. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Blast & Impact 

Structural Engineering & Materials 

Geotechnical Engineering