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My research is increasingly intertwined with environment-friendly materials.
Attention to environment is reflected in biomimetics
(application of ideas from nature to engineering).
1. Non-destructive control on vegetal tissues using LASER vibration
2. Plant fibres ( flax , hemp, jute) as glass fibre replacement in large volume products
3. Development of smart actuators from polyelectrolyte gel/composite coupling
4. Reconstruction of the middle ear using LASER vibration
5. Cricket Inspired Perception (CICADA and CILIA)
6. IR thermography of natural fibre composites and balsa wood
1. Compression moulding optimisation to improve impact performance of E-glass/polypropylene composites
2. Impact damage characterisation using infrared thermography
3. Moulding and testing of demonstrator components for automotive applications
1. Post-impact residual properties of jute/polyester compared with E-glass/polyester composites
2. Acoustic emission and thermal imaging (SPATE, Deltatherm) for post-impact damage assessment on composites
3. Impact and indentation damage characterisation on jute/polyester and E-glass/polyester composites
1. Thermal and acoustic emission to mechanical behaviour prediction on shape memory alloys (Ni-Ti)
2. Acousto-ultrasonics and acoustic emission for mechanical assessment of bonded and tapered joints
3. Development of a Michelson interferometry-based acoustic emission sensor
4. Thermal damage analysis and acoustic emission damage localisation on honeycomb panels
5. Tensile tests real-time monitoring on carbon/epoxy laminates using acoustic emission and thermal emission
6. Acoustic emission damage monitoring on titanium dental implants
1. Fatigue delamination monitoring by infrared thermography on quasi-isotropic carbon-epoxy laminates
2. Compression after impact tests characterisation on quasi-isotropic carbon-epoxy plates by infrared thermography.
1. Fatigue monitoring on carbon/epoxy composites by acoustic emission, C-Scan and replicas
2. Technical study, in-service observation and performance evaluation of acoustic emission systems
(work for the European Commission)
1. Al/Al bonded joints (EAMA) in-process cure monitoring with acoustic emission for quality assessment
2. Tensile and fatigue behaviour of metal matrix composites by acoustic emission and electron microscopy
3. Pattern recognition on acoustoultrasonic waveforms on steel bonded joints through neural networks
4. Proportionality limit measurement in composite materials by acoustic and thermal emission
5. Acoustic emission evaluation of thermal fatigue on thin ceramic (TiN, CN) layers for cutting materials (WC-Co)
6. Fatigue performance study on pretensioned unidirectional (90) carbon-epoxy by acoustic emission
7. Aluminium honeycomb damage detection via acoustic emission and thermography
1. Observation of tensile behaviour in carbon/epoxy unidirectional composites by acoustic emission (Kaiser effect)
2. EAMA Group Bench Mark on AE measurements during Carbon-BMI tensile tests
3. Acoustic emission and acoustoultrasonics on welded composite joints (ALENIA) during bending tests
4. Post-impact compression tests on stitched materials monitored with acoustic emission and image analysis
5. VAMAS Round Robin on bending tests on zirconia/yttria(ZrO2/Y2O3) with acoustic emission and SEM observations
6. Atmospheric degradation monitoring by acoustic emission of two monumental statues in Fontana di Trevi.
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This page was updated on 23rd February 2010.