Improved performance of adhesives, joints, coatings, and interfaces in multi-phase composites
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Daniel Balint
Keywords:
- Hydrogen in metals for nuclear and storage applications (e.g. delayed hydride cracking, hydrogen enhanced plasticity)
- Dislocation plasticity in ionic crystals (as battery materials)
- Mechanical recyling of plastics
- Multilayer paint film evolution and failure under hygrothermal cycling
- Irradiation hardening, strain softening and fracture in in zirconium alloys for PWR fuel pin cladding
- Semi-analytical crack network modelling, integrity of auxetics, failure of thermal barrier and wear coatings
- Elastodynamic discrete dislocation plasticity
- Fatigue in titanium alloys, lifetime prediction of thermal barrier coatings
- Discrete dislocation plasticity, size effects and defect-solute interactions
- Metal forming methods and associated materials modelling
- Environmental barrier coatings
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Bamber Blackman
Keywords:
- Recycling of plastics, cost advantages for joining techniques, repair using adhesively bonded solutions
- Fracture mechanics and structural integrity of bonded joints, lightweight structures, laminates etc.
- Impact and high strain rate fracture properties of lightweight materials
- Use of fracture mechanics to guide performance increases
- Fatigue and durability of lightweight materials and structures
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Maria Charalambides
Keywords:
- Mechanical recycling of plastic packaging
- Environmental fatigue in mulitlayered works of art
- Mechanical behaviour and modelling of adhesion, foams, particulate composites
- Material modelling and mechanical characterisation of soft polymeric solids and comsposites including rheology and high rate properties
- Micromechanics models of particulate composites, peeling of coatings, cohesive zone models for interfaces
- Rain erosion of wind turbine blade coatings
- Experimental and numerical modelling of industrial food manufacturing processes as well as oral and gastric processes
- Sustainable food manufacturing
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Soraia Pimenta
Keywords:
- Recycled composites. Recycled plastics. Life-cycle analysis
- Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
- Interface modelling
- Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
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Ambrose Taylor
Keywords:
- Post-consumer recycling, mechanical recycling, adhesive repairs
- Consolidants & fills, cracking, fracture, effects of RH and light
- Fibre composite fracture & fatigue, syntactic foams, bonded structures
- High-rate properties, fracture of polymers, adhesives & composites
- Toughening, analytical modelling of toughness
- Lifetime prediction & durability of adhesives & composites, coating durability
- Microstructural characterisation
- Coil-coating
- Ceramic particle modified polymers, toughening polymers using ceramic particles
- Food processing