| Topic: | Intrawoven and interply self-reinforced polypropylene/carbon fibre hybrid composites |
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| Speaker: | Prof Stepan V. Lomov Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Date: | Thursday, 22 August 2019 |
| Time: | 2.00pm to 3.00pm |
| Venue: | Seminar Room EA-06-05 (Block EA, Level 6) (map of NUS can be found at http://map.nus.edu.sg/) |
| Host: | Prof Tay Tong Earn |
Abstract
The lecture will present the decade-long work in KU Leuven on hybridisation of self-reinforced polypropylene and carbon fibres. Such hybrids offer excellent ductility and impact resistance in combination with high stiffness. Important feature is post-failure retaining of the load-carrying ability. The prominent application is Samsonite’s suitcases, and there are perspectives for automotive applications. The lecture will start with experimentally established guidelines for the hybridisation, continue with meso-FE modelling of intrawoven hybrid materials and finish with controlling the hybrid fracture with carbon ply cuts.
The lecture is co-authored by Larissa Gorbatikh, Yentl Swolfs, Seyed Ahmad Tabatabaei and Jun Tang.
About the Speaker
Prof. Stepan V. Lomov (b. 1955, Eng. 1979, PhD 1985, Dr Habil. 1995) is a co-ordinator of the Composite Materials Group, Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven; he also holds Toray Chair for Composite Materials @ KU Leuven.
- Research interests: multi-level modelling of heterogeneous media; internal geometry, mechanical properties, permeability of textiles and composites; development of “virtual material” software; experimental mechanics of fibrous materials and composites; advanced reinforcements (textile, 3D, nano…).
- (Co-)author of 250+ SCI papers, (co-)supervisor of 30+ finished and on-going PhDs, coordinator an PI of national, European industrial projects with total funding over €1.5 mio per year
- Member of editorial boards of Composite Science and Technology, Textile Research Journal, Mechanics and Industry, Composites and Nanostructures, Journal of Textiles and Fibrous Materials.
Developer of virtual textiles and textile composites WiseTex and software for analysis of µCT images of fibrous materials VoxTex, which are used in 70+ universities and companies around the world.