The Multifunctional Composites Joining, Modelling and Repair research group, led by Dr Hamed Yazdani Nezhad, is part of the Enhanced Composites and Structures Centre at Cranfield University.
The research group is focused on multi-disciplinary activities mapped across different technology readiness levels (TRL1-6), multi-material and multi-scale approaches for design, manufacturing, joining and structural integrity assessment of high performance multifunctional polymer composite materials and structures. The group comprises academic and research staff, post-docs, students, lab technicians and industrial partners.
Group members
Dr Meng-Fang Lin (research staff)
Danning Li (PhD student)
Donglan An (PhD student)
Raghvendra Kumar Mishra (PhD student)
Ehsan Tanhaee (PhD student)
Luis Lopez Lazaro (MSc student)
Tadej Bregar (MSc student)
Daria Mesbah (MSc student)
Sara Hawi (MSc student)
Wei Dai (MSc student)
Xi Wang (MSc student)
Yvette Mwendwa (MSc student)
Siddarth Mohanty (MSc student)
Xiaolong Zhang (MSc student)
Current projects
- EPSRC funded project, Ref. No. EP/R016828/1 (www.straincomp.com):
Self-Tuning Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Adaptive Nanocomposite (STRAINcomp) - EPSRC funded project, Ref. No. EP/R513027/1 (www.cranfield.ac.uk/research/phd/microstructural-study-of-multifunctional-nanocomposites):
Microstructural Study of Multifunctional Nanocomposites - EPSRC funded project, Ref. No. EP/P511134/1
Dielectric Activated Resin Cure for Composites Repair (DARCRep) - Industrial funded projects:
Smart Adhesive evaluation for structural in-situ strain measurement applications>
Nano-material embedded C-solder® evaluation for high performance structural joining - Industrial funded projects (www.munrotechnology.com):
Development of high interlaminar fracture toughness composites using nanofibers for aircraft interior
Comparative FEA of thermoset and thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to impact events
Clients
UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC (UKRI)
Cametics Cambridge Advanced Metals Ltd
Munro Technology Ltd
FGV Cambridge Nanosystems Ltd
Oxford Advanced Surfaces Ltd
Through-life Engineering Services Centre
Zodiac Aerospace Ltd
Laboratory equipment
CVD, nanosynthesis facilities, nano-embedded polymer and composite fabrication facilities, vacuum oven, also access to the composite manufacturing laboratory and Through-life Engineering Services Centre NDI facilities, molecular dynamics simulation (LAMMPS), Abaqus and ANSYS.
Funding resources
EPSRC (UKRI)
H2020 (Clean Sky2, European Regional Development Fund)
Industrial (Cametics, MunroTech, OAS, CNONS etc)
Postgraduate projects
Claire Giraudmaillet
Health monitoring of polymer composite structures using piezoelectric nano-fibres
Daria Mesbah
Development of high interlaminar fracture toughness composites using nanofibres for aircraft interior
Dimosthenis Stratakis
Performance of aerospace composites in the presence of process-induced defects
Luis Lopez Lazaro
Comparative FEA of thermoset and thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to impact events
Rachana Bhanushali
Effect of bond deficiency on the response of bonded composite single-lap joints
Raphael Prevost
Development of damage tolerant aerospace composites using advanced interlaminar nanofibers
Sara Hawi
Nano-material embedded C-solder evaluation for high performance structural joining
Tadej Bregar
Smart adhesive evaluation for structural in-situ strain measurement applications
Jim Nourry
Nanocomposite for strain self-sensing application
Xi Wang
Augmented reality (AR) equipped composites repair
Xiaolong Zhang
Tailoring of thermo-mechanical properties of hybrid composite-metal bonded joints
Other projects
STRAINcomp
Multifunctional composites
Impact damage response
Composite bolted joint
Composite bonded joint
Rapid, reliable and intelligent unconventional manufacturing of composite structures
Dielectric nanocomposites
Aerospace composite repair
In situ 3D Xray CT nanoindentation of nanocomposites
Augmented Reality (AR) equipped composites repair
Vacancies
The group has no vacancies currently. Please visit later or contact Dr Yazdani Nezhad for future vacancies.
