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Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background, Motivation and Objective: Piezoelectric materials carry intrinsic elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, typically represented in matrix form, which make them crucial for various technological fields. They are usually employed... Read More about Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples.

Visual inspection of impact damage in composite materials (2024)
Book Chapter

Visual inspection is one of the most common nondestructive evaluation techniques that is performed through vision. This chapter will summarize visual inspection principles for detecting impact damage in composite materials. Effective parameters and a... Read More about Visual inspection of impact damage in composite materials.

Multiple innovations in characterizing piezoelectric materials (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Characterisation of piezoelectric materials is a key part. The IEEE standard is the only approach that can produce a full elastopiezodielectric matrix. However, it requires multiple samples. This often involves difficulties preparing the samples for... Read More about Multiple innovations in characterizing piezoelectric materials.

Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Piezoelectric materials play a key role in various technological applications owing to their unique elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, often represented in matrix form. Traditional methods for obtaining these properties, as defined by... Read More about Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials.

Multivariable signal processing for characterization of failure modes in thin-ply hybrid laminates using acoustic emission sensors (2023)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to find the correlation between failure modes and acoustic emission (AE) events in a comprehensive range of thin-ply pseudo-ductile hybrid composite laminates when loaded under uniaxial tension. The investigated hybrid lamin... Read More about Multivariable signal processing for characterization of failure modes in thin-ply hybrid laminates using acoustic emission sensors.

Smart hybrid composite sensor technology to enhance the detection of low energy impact damage in composite structures (2023)
Journal Article

This paper introduces novel structural health monitoring (SHM) sensors to improve the detection of low energy impact damage in laminated composites. The sensor is a purposely designed thin-ply hybrid composite, composed of a layer of unidirectional S... Read More about Smart hybrid composite sensor technology to enhance the detection of low energy impact damage in composite structures.

Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites (2022)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the fatigue behaviour of pseudo-ductile Quasi-Isotropic (QI) interlayer hybrids with un-notched and open-hole configurations. Two different types of QI pseudo-ductile hybrids were evaluated; HighC, with carbon to glass thickne... Read More about Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites.

Autonomous damage recognition in visual inspection of laminated composite structures using deep learning (2021)
Journal Article

This study proposes the exploitation of deep learning for quantitative assessment of visual detectability of different types of in-service damage in laminated composite structures such as aircraft and wind turbine blades. A comprehensive image-based... Read More about Autonomous damage recognition in visual inspection of laminated composite structures using deep learning.

Fiber reinforced polymer composites in bridge industry (2021)
Journal Article

This paper presents a concise state-of-the-art review on the use of Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) in bridge engineering. The paper is organized into commonly used FRP bridge components, and different materials/manufacturing techniques used for rep... Read More about Fiber reinforced polymer composites in bridge industry.

Investigating the effect of interface morphology in adhesively bonded composite wavy-lap joints (2021)
Journal Article

Joints and interfaces are one of the key aspects of the design and production of composite structures. This paper investigates the effect of adhesive–adherend interface morphology on the mechanical behavior of wavy-lap joints with the aim to improve... Read More about Investigating the effect of interface morphology in adhesively bonded composite wavy-lap joints.