Dr Guillaume Kister
Research Fellow
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: g.kister@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785007
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Guillaume Kister is currently employed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at Cranfield University’s Shrivenham campus where he is developing the optical fibre sensor technology for assessing the integrity of composite and civil structures (for example composite road bridge and reinforced concrete foundation piles). He is also involved in the fabrication, mechanical testing, and microscopy analysis of prepreg composite materials.He is becoming involved in the integrity and ageing monitoring of rocket motor propellants using optical fibre-based sensors.
Clients
Airbus, Mouchel ParkmanBackground
Dr. Guillaume Kister completed his higher education in mechanical engineering in France before being awarded his PhD in ‘Ceramic-matrix composites for gas turbine applications’ at the University of Bath.
Guillaume joined Cranfield University in 2000 working on self-sensing composites – composites whose reinforcing fibres were converted into light guides to detect damages. He then moved to the area of structural health monitoring using optical fibre-based sensors by assessing the strain transfer in reinforced concrete columns over-wrapped with composite materials.
Selected publications
Kister G, Winter D, Gebremichael YM, Leighton J, Badcock RA, Tester PD, Krishnamurthy S, Boyle WJO, Grattan KTV and Fernando GF “Methodology and integrity monitoring of foundation concrete piles using Bragg grating optical fibre sensors” Engineering Structures 29 (2007) 2048-2055.Kister G, Badcock RA, Gebremichael YM, Boyle WJO, Grattan KTV, Fernando GF and Canning L “Monitoring of an all-composite bridge using Bragg grating sensors” Construction and Building Materials 21 (2007) 1599-1604.
Kister G, Winter D, Tetlow J, Barnes R, Mays G and Fernando GF “Structural integrity monitoring of reinforced concrete structures. Part 1: Evaluation of protection systems for extrinsic fibre Fabry-Perot sensors” Engineering Structures 27 (2005) 411-419.
Kister G, Ralph B and Fernando GF “Damage detection in glass fibre-reinforced plastic composites using self-sensing E-glass fibres” Smart Materials and Structures 13 (2004) 1166-1175.
