Contact Dr David Ayre
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 752947
- Email: d.s.ayre@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Composites
- Lightweighting & Crashworthiness
- Aerospace Materials
- Nanotechnology
Background
Dr Ayre has 10 years experience of working in industry as a chemist in the nuclear power generation industry, where he worked on operating and commissioning AGR Power Stations
Current activities
Dr Ayre is a Senior Lecturer in Composites and Polymers in the Composites and Advanced Materials Centre at Cranfield University. He is the course director for the Advanced Materials MSc and has research interests in polymer and composite toughening, composite manufacturing cost modelling, joining of composite structures, failure of polymeric coatings and recycling of polymeric materials.
Other research interests include mechanical, thermal and visual characterisation of materials.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Taiwo AS, Ayre DS, Khorami M & Rahatekar SS. (2025). Development of Fiber Cement Boards Using Recycled Jute Fibers for Building Applications. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 37(1)
- Ghadarah NS & Ayre D. (2024). Performance evaluation of embedded acoustic emission sensors in a glass fibre composite under mechanical loading. Applied Acoustics, 218
- Taiwo AS, Ayre DS, Khorami M & Rahatekar SS. (2024). Optimizing the mechanical properties of cement composite boards reinforced with cellulose pulp and bamboo fibers for building applications in low-cost housing estates. Materials, 17(3)
- Atescan Yuksek Y, Mills A, Ayre D, Koziol KKK & Salonitis K. (2024). Comparative life cycle assessment of aluminium and CFRP composites: the case of aerospace manufacturing. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 131(7-8)
- Taiwo AS, Ayre DS, Khorami M & Rahatekar SS. (2024). Assessment of the mechanical and microstructural performance of waste kraft fibre reinforced cement composite incorporating sustainable eco-friendly additives. Buildings, 14(9)
- Bianchi F, Liu Y, Joesbury AM, Ayre D & Zhang X. (2023). A finite element model for predicting the static strength of a composite hybrid joint with reinforcement pins. Materials, 16(9)
- Ghadarah NS & Ayre D. (2023). A review on acoustic emission testing for structural health monitoring of polymer-based composites. Sensors, 23(15)
- Ghadarah NS & Ayre D. (2023). A comparative analysis of acoustic emission sensor embedding in glass fibre composite. Composites Science and Technology, 247
- Li D, Barrington J, James S, Ayre D, Sloma M, .... (2022). Electromagnetic field controlled domain wall displacement for induced strain tailoring in BaTiO3-epoxy nanocomposite. Scientific Reports, 12(1)
- Bregar T, An D, Gharavian S, Burda M, Durazo-Cardenas I, .... (2021). Author Correction: Carbon nanotube embedded adhesives for real-time monitoring of adhesion failure in high performance adhesively bonded joints. Scientific Reports, 11(1)
- Bregar T, An D, Gharavian S, Burda M, Durazo-Cardenas I, .... (2020). Carbon nanotube embedded adhesives for real-time monitoring of adhesion failure in high performance adhesively bonded joints. Scientific Reports, 10(1)
- An D, Lotfian S, Mesbah D, Ayre D, Yoosefinejad A, .... (2019). Ultra-thin electrospun nanofibers for development of damage-tolerant composite laminates. Materials Today Chemistry, 14
- Adu C, Rahatekar SS, Filby J, Ayre D & Jolly MR. (2019). Structural packaging foams prepared by uni-directional freezing of paper sludge cellulose nanofibres and poly (vinyl alcohol). Materials Letters, 253
- Liu Y, Zhang X, Lemanski S, Yazdani Nezhad H & Ayre D. (2019). Experimental and numerical study of process-induced defects and their effect on fatigue debonding in composite joints. International Journal of Fatigue, 125
- Tang S, Lemanski S, Zhang X & Ayre D. (2019). Fatigue life prediction of z-fibre pinned composite laminate under mode I loading. Composites Science and Technology, 174
- Liu Y, Lemanski S, Zhang X, Ayre D & Nezhad HY. (2018). A finite element study of fatigue crack propagation in single lap bonded joint with process-induced disbond. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 87
- Ayre D. (2018). Technology advancing polymers and polymer composites towards sustainability: A review. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 13
- Joesbury A, Colegrove PA, Van Rymenant P, Ayre D, Ganguly S, .... (2017). Weld-bonded stainless steel to carbon fibre-reinforced plastic joints. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 251
- Wu T, Irving PE, Ayre D, Jackson P & Zhao F. (2017). Fatigue cracking behaviour of epoxy-based marine coatings on steel substrate under cyclic tension. International Journal of Fatigue, 99
- Wu T, Irving PE, Ayre D, Dell’Anno G, Jackson P, .... (2016). Fracture of epoxy-based marine coatings as free films and substrated coatings under static tension. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 159
- Bucknall CB, Ayre DS & Dijkstra DJ. (2000). Detection of rubber particle cavitation in toughened plastics using thermal contraction tests. Polymer, 41(15)
- Ayre DS & Bucknall CB. (1998). Particle cavitation in rubber-toughened PMMA: experimental testing of the energy-balance criterion. Polymer, 39(20)
- Lin CS, Ayre DS & Bucknall CB. (1998). A Dynamic Mechanical Technique for Detecting Rubber Particle Cavitation in toughened Plastics. Journal of Materials Science Letters, 17(8)
