Imperial College London
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ProfessorPaulCurtis

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Academic Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5040p.curtis

 
 
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E259Roderic Hill BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Malik:2016:10.3390/s16050615,
author = {Malik, SA and Wang, L and Curtis, PT and Fernando, GF},
doi = {10.3390/s16050615},
journal = {Sensors},
title = {Self-sensing composites: in-situ detection of fibre fracture},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16050615},
volume = {16},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The primary load-bearing component in a composite material is the reinforcing fibres. This paper reports on a technique to study the fracture of individual reinforcing fibres or filaments in real-time. Custom-made small-diameter optical fibres with a diameter of 12 (±2) micrometres were used to detect the fracture of individual filaments during tensile loading of unreinforced bundles and composites. The unimpregnated bundles were end-tabbed and tensile tested to failure. A simple technique based on resin-infusion was developed to manufacture composites with a negligible void content. In both cases, optical fibre connectors were attached to the ends of the small-diameter optical fibre bundles to enable light to be coupled into the bundle via one end whilst the opposite end was photographed using a high-speed camera. The feasibility of detecting the fracture of each of the filaments in the bundle and composite was demonstrated. The in-situ damage detection technique was also applied to E-glass bundles and composites; this will be reported in a subsequent publication.
AU  - Malik,SA
AU  - Wang,L
AU  - Curtis,PT
AU  - Fernando,GF
DO  - 10.3390/s16050615
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1424-8239
TI  - Self-sensing composites: in-situ detection of fibre fracture
T2  - Sensors
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16050615
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000375153900024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/33674
VL  - 16
ER  -
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