Paul Meehan

Professor · Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and IT · The University of Queensland

Quick answer: Paul Meehan is Professor at The University of Queensland. Paul Meehan shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-17.

⭐ Available for supervision. Available projects: Control of an Advanced Flexible Chain-die Forming Process (Advertised now); Investigation of an Advanced Flexible Chain-die Forming Process (Advertised now); Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats (advertised now); Investigation of dragline bucket swing instabilities; Modelling and control of vibration instabilities in contact mechanical systems; P

Research interests

Paul Meehan's research interests are in: Smart Machines; Railway Engineering and Technology, Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Instabilities and chaos in rolling processes, spacecraft systems and biological/human body processes, advanced manufacturing modelling and analysis. Paul Meehan is an expert in modelling, analysis and control in non-linear mechanics applied to engineering systems. He has over 25 years experience in engineering research, development, commercialization and consulting in the areas of non-linear dynamics, vibrations, controls, rolling contact, elastoplastic and wear phenomena, with applications to manufacturing, mining, railway, spacecraft and biomedical systems. He has initiated and led many successful large collaborative R&D projects in this area. Paul has recently led or is currently leading major projects in novel prediction and control of non-linear phenomena in railway, mining and manufacturing systems, including Decarbonisation, Bearing Degradation Phenomena, Incremental Sheet Forming, Wheel and Brake Squeal, Advanced Duty Detection and Millipede Technology. He has organised three international conferences in various areas of non-linear mechanics and has authored over 140 internationally refereed publications and three international patents in this area. He also teaches several intermediate and advanced level courses in mechanics at the University of Queensland, and consults regularly to high technology industries. Smart Machines; Railway Engineering and Technology, Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Instabilities and chaos in rolling processes, spacecraft systems and biological/human body processes, advanced manufacturing modelling and analysis.

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2026] Journal Article: Prediction and mitigation of falling-friction wheel squeal noise amplitude under combined lateral and longitudinal creepage. Wangtawesap, Ratabhat and Meehan, Paul A. (2026). Journal of Sound and Vibration, 637 119813, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jsv.2026.119813 [2026] Book: Prediction and control of dynamical instabilities in engineering systems. Meehan, Paul A. (2026). Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003496533 [2026] Conference Publication: Study of Flutter Instability of Viscoelastic Wind Turbine Blades. Kumar, Neeraj, Dutt, J. K., Meehan, Paul and Krishna, K. Rama (2026). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-11549-2_34 [2025] Journal Article: Prediction and control of nonlinear instabilities in slewing

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