Dr James Talbot
- Associate Professor
- Fellow & Director of Studies in Engineering, Peterhouse
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About
James Talbot graduated from Cambridge with a BA and MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering, having been a sponsored student with Westland Aerostructures. He went on to spend two years with the engineering consultancy Atkins, before returning to the department to complete his PhD on the vibration isolation of buildings. This was followed by his post-doctoral research within the EU project CONVURT on the control of noise and vibration from underground railways. After CONVURT, Dr Talbot returned to Atkins where he spent a further nine years working primarily in the fields of vibration engineering and structural integrity. His experience covers experimental work, theoretical analysis and design, from across a wide range of industries.
Dr Talbot returned to Cambridge in 2013 as a University Lecturer in the Structures Group of the Civil Engineering Division. He was elected an Official Fellow of Peterhouse, where he is Director of Studies for first-year undergraduates in Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Member of the Institute of Acoustics and a Director of the International Institute of Acoustics & Vibration.
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/jpt1000
Research
Dr Talbot’s research interests lie broadly within the field of Structural Dynamics.
Base Isolation of Buildings against Ground-borne Vibration Dynamic models for the performance-based design of base-isolated buildings. Work includes computationally efficient models (e.g. using boundary-element methods and periodic structure theory) for the analysis of wave propagation and soil-structure interaction, and power-flow approaches to assessing isolation performance.
Ground-borne Noise and Vibration Analysis and control of ground-borne vibration and re-radiated noise from roads and railways, including vehicle-based track monitoring for railways.
Dynamic Measurements for Monitoring Structural Integrity Current work is investigating strand-break detection in cables with the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction.
- Dynamic models for the performance-based design of base-isolated buildings
- Vehicle-based track monitoring for railways
Teaching and supervision
- Part 1A Structural Design Course
- Part 1B Structures
- Part 1B Integrated Coursework: Buildings in Earthquakes
- Part IIB 4D6: Dynamics in Civil Engineering
- Part IA and IB supervising in Structures and Mathematics