Outputs (27)

A review on remanufacture of dies and moulds (2013)
Journal Article
Chen, C., Wang, Y., Ou, H., He, Y., & Tang, X. (2014). A review on remanufacture of dies and moulds. Journal of Cleaner Production, 64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.09.014

Dies and moulds, which are essential tools for manufacturing engineered products, usually fail or become obsolete after a certain period of use for a variety of reasons. Thus, they often need remanufacture. The objectives of this paper are to review... Read More about A review on remanufacture of dies and moulds.

Predicting the coefficient of thermal expansion for textile composites based on a unit cell approach (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, L. P., Zeng, X., Long, A. C., Brooks, R., & Jones, I. A. Predicting the coefficient of thermal expansion for textile composites based on a unit cell approach. Presented at Texcomp-11 Conference

The study focuses on unit cell FE modelling to predict coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs) for sheared fabric laminates. Shear, as a dominant deformation mode in textile composites forming, introduces high degrees of anisotropy in both elasticit... Read More about Predicting the coefficient of thermal expansion for textile composites based on a unit cell approach.

Recent developments in the realistic geometric modelling of textile structures using TexGen (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, L. P., Zeng, X., Long, A., & Jones, I. A. Recent developments in the realistic geometric modelling of textile structures using TexGen. Presented at 1st International Conference on Digital Technologies for the Textile Industries

Realistic geometric representation of fabrics is essential for modelling of mechanical and physical properties of textiles and textile composites. It is also advantageous to be able to generate those models quickly and easily. Recent developments in... Read More about Recent developments in the realistic geometric modelling of textile structures using TexGen.

Small ring testing of a creep resistant material (2013)
Journal Article
Hyde, C. J., Hyde, T., Sun, W., Nardone, S., & De Bruycker, E. (2013). Small ring testing of a creep resistant material. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 586, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2013.07.081

Many components in conventional and nuclear power plant, aero-engines, chemical plant etc., operate at temperatures which are high enough for creep to occur. These include steam pipes, pipe branches, gas and steam turbine blades, etc. The manufacture... Read More about Small ring testing of a creep resistant material.

Visualizing charge separation in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (2013)
Journal Article
Vithanage, D. A., Devižis, A., Abramavičius, V., Infahsaeng, Y., Abramavičius, D., MacKenzie, R., Keivanidis, P., Yartsev, A., Hertel, D., Nelson, J., Sundström, V., & Gulbinas, V. (2013). Visualizing charge separation in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Nature Communications, 4, Article 2334. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3334

Solar cells based on conjugated polymer and fullerene blends have been developed as a low-cost alternative to silicon. For efficient solar cells, electron–hole pairs must separate into free mobile charges that can be extracted in high yield. We still... Read More about Visualizing charge separation in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells.

Characterization of viscoplasticity behaviour of P91 and P92 power plant steels (2013)
Journal Article
Saad, A. A., Hyde, T., Sun, W., Hyde, C. J., & Tanner, D. W. J. (2013). Characterization of viscoplasticity behaviour of P91 and P92 power plant steels. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 111-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2013.08.001

This paper deals with the determination of material constitutive model for P91 and P92 steels at high temperatures. An isothermal, strain-controlled test programme was conducted for both steels for a temperature range between 400 and 675 °C. The expe... Read More about Characterization of viscoplasticity behaviour of P91 and P92 power plant steels.

Anionic polymerisation of caprolactam at the small-scale via DSC investigations (2013)
Journal Article
Khodabakhshi, K., Gilbert, M., Fathi, S., & Dickens, P. (2014). Anionic polymerisation of caprolactam at the small-scale via DSC investigations. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 115, 383-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-013-3344-4

This work was part of a major project aiming to produce polyamide 6 parts using an additive manufacturing process. This is by manufacturing 3D parts layer by layer. The influence of heating strategy (heating rate, cooling rate and maximum temperature... Read More about Anionic polymerisation of caprolactam at the small-scale via DSC investigations.

Comparison of several optimisation strategies for the determination of material constants in the Chaboche visco-plasticity model (2013)
Journal Article
Rouse, J. P., Hyde, C. J., Sun, W., & Hyde, T. (2013). Comparison of several optimisation strategies for the determination of material constants in the Chaboche visco-plasticity model. Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 48(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309324713490925

Determining representative material constant sets for models that can accurately predict the complex plasticity and creep behaviour of components undergoing cyclic loading is of great interest to many industries. The Chaboche unified visco-plasticity... Read More about Comparison of several optimisation strategies for the determination of material constants in the Chaboche visco-plasticity model.

Effective determination of cyclic-visco-plasticity material properties using an optimisation procedure and experimental data exhibiting scatter (2013)
Journal Article
Rouse, J. P., Hyde, C. J., Sun, W., & Hyde, T. H. (2013). Effective determination of cyclic-visco-plasticity material properties using an optimisation procedure and experimental data exhibiting scatter. Materials at High Temperatures, 30(2), 117-128. https://doi.org/10.3184/096034013x13720928952114

It may be inevitable in the design and analysis of most high temperature components (such as power industry pipe work) that variations in load and/or temperature will occur in normal operation. This presents complications in the prediction of the res... Read More about Effective determination of cyclic-visco-plasticity material properties using an optimisation procedure and experimental data exhibiting scatter.

Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information (2013)
Journal Article
Brown, M., Sharples, S., & Harding, J. (2013). Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.01.004

As the use of Geographic Information (GI) is becoming more widespread, the usability of GI is being recognised as an important issue. However, exploring the usability of information products brings with it a range of problems that are not easily han... Read More about Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information.