Category: AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Boundary element plate formulations for dynamic fracture and ultrasonic guided-wave structural health monitoring

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Boundary element plate formulations for dynamic fracture and ultrasonic guided-wave structural health monitoring In this thesis, new boundary element formulations based on first-order plate theories are developed for dynamic …

Carbon fibre laminates with engineered fracture behaviour

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Carbon fibre laminates with engineered fracture behaviour A new bio-inspired microstructure design approach was developed to improve the translaminar toughness and damage tolerance of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) …

Carbon nanoparticle reinforced polymer composites

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Carbon nanoparticle reinforced polymer composites Theoretically, covalent functionalised carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs) are supposed to be effective reinforcement fillers to improve the mechanical properties of the brittle epoxy in a …

Cellulose nanopaper as reinforcement for sustainable polymer composites

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Cellulose nanopaper as reinforcement for sustainable polymer composites The use of cellulose nanopapers as reinforcement to produce high performance polymer composites is investigated in this thesis. Cellulose nanopapers are …

Cellulose nanopaper as two-dimensional reinforcement for polymers

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Cellulose nanopaper as two-dimensional reinforcement for polymers This thesis investigates the use of cellulose nanopaper as two-dimensional reinforcement for polymers. It was found that the introduction of bacterial cellulose …

Characterisation and estimation of the flow over a forward-facing step

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Characterisation and estimation of the flow over a forward-facing step The turbulent flow over a forward-facing step is studied using two-dimensional time-resolved Particle Image Velocimetry and simultaneously sampled wall-pressure …

Characterisation of fibre hybrid thermosetting composites for automotive applications

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Characterisation of fibre hybrid thermosetting composites for automotive applications The objective of the research presented in this PhD thesis is to improve the understanding of the failure modes and …

Coherent structures and transient amplification mechanisms in transitional and turbulent flows

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Coherent structures and transient amplification mechanisms in transitional and turbulent flows In this thesis, a generic explanation for coherent structures based on the filtering properties of the linearised Navier-Stokes …

Coherent structures in high-reynolds number wall-bounded turbulence: invariant solutions and scale interaction

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Coherent structures in high-reynolds number wall-bounded turbulence: invariant solutions and scale interaction This work seeks to address some of the outstanding issues in the theoretical description of high-Reynolds number …

Composites with Controllable Stiffness

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Composites with Controllable Stiffness High performance carbon fibre reinforced composites with controllable stiffness could revolutionise the use of composite materials in structural applications. Described here are structural materials, the …

Bio-inspired micro-structural design for CFRP: exploring damage mechanisms of nacre

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Bio-inspired micro-structural design for CFRP: exploring damage mechanisms of nacre Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) are widely regarded as the material of choice for many aerospace and automotive applications, where …

Computational analysis and mitigation of micro-pressure waves in high-speed train tunnels

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Computational analysis and mitigation of micro-pressure waves in high-speed train tunnels Tunnels are increasingly used in high-speed rail projects to mitigate against issues such as environmental noise, land disputes, …

Blockage tolerant wind tunnel testing of aerofoils at angles of incidence from 0 to 360 degrees, with respect to the self-start of vertical-axis wind turbines

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Blockage tolerant wind tunnel testing of aerofoils at angles of incidence from 0 to 360 degrees, with respect to the self-start of vertical-axis wind turbines The need for better …

Boundary Element Method for Fast Solution of Acoustic Problems: Active and Passive Noise Control

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Boundary Element Method for Fast Solution of Acoustic Problems: Active and Passive Noise Control This thesis presents boundary element formulations for three-dimensional acoustic problems of active (ANC) and passive …

A boundary element method for modelling piezoelectric transducer based structural health monitoring

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A boundary element method for modelling piezoelectric transducer based structural health monitoring In this thesis, several numerical approaches for the development of structural health monitoring (SHM) methodologies for engineering …

Boundary element methods for cohesive thermo-mechanical damage and micro-cracking evolution

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Boundary element methods for cohesive thermo-mechanical damage and micro-cracking evolution In this thesis, Boundary Element Methods (BEM) are developed for micro-mechanic cohesive non linear problems. Modelling of intergranular and …

Bio-inspired designs for enhanced damage resistance of composite structures: Bouligand, Herringbone and multi-tailored bone-inspired strategies

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Bio-inspired designs for enhanced damage resistance of composite structures: Bouligand, Herringbone and multi-tailored bone-inspired strategies This thesis presents three novel bio-inspired microstructural concepts, for point-by-point tailorable composite solutions, that …