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An experimental study into the effects of bulk and flow behaviour of laser sintering polymer powders on resulting part properties (2014)
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Ziegelmeier, S., Christou, P., Wöllecke, F., Tuck, C., Goodridge, R. D., Hague, R. J., Krampe, E., & Wintermantel, E. (2015). An experimental study into the effects of bulk and flow behaviour of laser sintering polymer powders on resulting part properties. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2014.07.029

The properties of parts manufactured by laser sintering (LS) are, amongst others, influenced by the packing and flow efficiencies of the powders being processed.

In particular, this study investigated the influence of the bulk and flow characteris... Read More about An experimental study into the effects of bulk and flow behaviour of laser sintering polymer powders on resulting part properties.

Mechanical modelling of 3D woven composites considering realistic unit cell geometry (2014)
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Green, S., Matveev, M., Long, A., Ivanov, D., & Hallett, S. (2014). Mechanical modelling of 3D woven composites considering realistic unit cell geometry. Composite Structures, 118, 284-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.07.005

Fullerene-free organic solar cells with an efficiency of 3.7% based on a low-cost geometrically planar perylene diimide monomer (2014)
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Singh, R., Aluicio-Sarduy, E., Kan, Z., Ye, T., MacKenzie, R., & Keivanidis, P. (2014). Fullerene-free organic solar cells with an efficiency of 3.7% based on a low-cost geometrically planar perylene diimide monomer. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2(35), 14348-14353. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ta02851a

The aggregate-induced limitation for high power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perylene-diimide (PDI): polymer solar cells can be circumvented when two simple rules are respected; the aggregate size of PDI remains short enough and the omnipresent... Read More about Fullerene-free organic solar cells with an efficiency of 3.7% based on a low-cost geometrically planar perylene diimide monomer.

Optimization of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters including non-linear effects (2014)
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Patel, R., McWilliam, S., & Popov, A. (2014). Optimization of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters including non-linear effects. Smart Materials and Structures, 23(8), Article 085002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/23/8/085002

This paper proposes a versatile non-linear model for predicting piezoelectric energy harvester performance. The presented model includes (i) material non-linearity, for both substrate and piezoelectric layers, and (ii) geometric non-linearity incorpo... Read More about Optimization of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters including non-linear effects.

An alternative non-vacuum and low cost ESAVD method for the deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorber layers (2014)
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Wang, M., Hou, X., Liu, J., Choy, K., Gibson, P., Salem, E., Koutsogeorgis, D., & Cranton, W. (2015). An alternative non-vacuum and low cost ESAVD method for the deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorber layers. Physica Status Solidi a Applied Research, 212, https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201431295

In this article, an environmentally friendly and non vacuum electrostatic spray assisted vapour deposition (ESAVD) process has been developed as an alternative and low cost method to deposit CIGS absorber layers. ESAVD is a non-vacuum chemical vapour... Read More about An alternative non-vacuum and low cost ESAVD method for the deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorber layers.

Effect of specimen history on structure and in-plane permeability of woven fabrics (2014)
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Endruweit, A., Zeng, X., & Long, A. C. (2015). Effect of specimen history on structure and in-plane permeability of woven fabrics. Journal of Composite Materials, 49(13), https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998314536070

Before being processed into composites, reinforcement fabrics may undergo repeated involuntary deformation, the complete sequence of which is here referred to as specimen history. To mimic its effect, fabric specimens were subjected to sequences of d... Read More about Effect of specimen history on structure and in-plane permeability of woven fabrics.

Analysis of filament arrangements and generation of statistically equivalent composite micro-structures (2014)
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Gommer, F., Endruweit, A., & Long, A. C. (2014). Analysis of filament arrangements and generation of statistically equivalent composite micro-structures. Composites Science and Technology, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.05.008

An efficient method to describe and quantify the filament arrangement in fibre bundles based on the analysis of micrographs was developed. Quantitative measurement of relative filament positions indicated that the initially random arrangement of fila... Read More about Analysis of filament arrangements and generation of statistically equivalent composite micro-structures.

Mechanism investigation of friction-related effects in single point incremental forming using a developed oblique roller-ball tool (2014)
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Lu, B., Fang, Y., Xu, D., Chen, J., Ou, H., Moser, N., & Cao, J. (2014). Mechanism investigation of friction-related effects in single point incremental forming using a developed oblique roller-ball tool. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 85, 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2014.04.007

Single point incremental forming (SPIF) is a highly versatile and flexible process for rapid manufacturing of complex sheet metal parts. In the SPIF process, a ball nose tool moves along a predefined tool path to form the sheet to desired shapes. Due... Read More about Mechanism investigation of friction-related effects in single point incremental forming using a developed oblique roller-ball tool.

An error diffusion based method to generate functionally graded cellular structures (2014)
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Brackett, D., Ashcroft, I., Wildman, R., & Hague, R. J. (2014). An error diffusion based method to generate functionally graded cellular structures. Computers and Structures, 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2014.03.004

The spatial variation of cell size in a functionally graded cellular structure is achieved using error diffusion to convert a continuous tone image into binary form. Effects of two control parameters, greyscale value and resolution on the resulting c... Read More about An error diffusion based method to generate functionally graded cellular structures.

Cyclic viscoplasticity testing and modeling of a service-aged P91 steel (2014)
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Hyde, C. J., Sun, W., Hyde, T., Rouse, J., Farragher, T., O'Dowd, N. P., & Leen, S. (2014). Cyclic viscoplasticity testing and modeling of a service-aged P91 steel. Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 136(4), Article 044501. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4026865

A service-aged P91 steel was used to perform an experimental program of cyclic mechanical testing in the temperature range of 400 °C–600 °C, under isothermal conditions, using both saw-tooth and dwell (inclusion of a constant strain dwell period at t... Read More about Cyclic viscoplasticity testing and modeling of a service-aged P91 steel.