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Xiao, Y. (author)Additively manufacturing can bring opportunities and risk factors to the aerospace industry. On one hand, additive manufacturing allows the manufacturing of structures with geometries that are difficult or impossible to fabricatewith conventional machining procedures. This geometry flexibility may lead to components with a greater strength-to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Ewald, Vincentius (author)One of the classical solutions to maintain the aircraft structural integrity is to rely on the analysis of non-destructive testing (NDT) inspector with various inspection methods. However, it is relatively expensive in matter of time and costs to train human resources until the certification is reached. Further, in majority of the cases of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Tao, N. (author)THICK composite materials, e.g., thickness of more than 50 mm, are increasingly being used across diverse industry sectors owing to their significant advantages of weightsavings, superiormaterial properties and load-carrying capability. These materials tend to be adopted in safety-critical applications such as large primary or secondary load...doctoral thesis 2023
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de Zeeuw, C.M. (author)Over the years the use of composites as an aircraft structural material has significantly increased. Currently, the industry still relies largely onmanually manufactured components. Automated manufacturing can however bring advantages such as reduced manufacturing costs and amore consistent and higher quality end product. An attractive automated...doctoral thesis 2023
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Wang, X. (author)In this thesis, fibre optic sensing has been investigated as an important technique for structural health monitoring. Distributed fibre optic sensing based on Rayleigh scattering is a fibre optic sensing technique to achieve the spatially continuous strain monitoring for critical locations for the structures. However, the Rayleigh backscattering...doctoral thesis 2023
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Haschenburger, A.I. (author)Composites are increasingly used in the aerospace industry due to their lightweight potential and flexible design options. The most widespread manufacturing process for large components made of fibre composites is still the open mould process. In this process, a composite component is placed on a mould and hermetically sealed with a vacuum bag...doctoral thesis 2022
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Reurings, C. (author)The current concerns regarding global warming and climate change in Europe and other parts of the world also influence developments in the automotive sector. Not only are alternative energy and power sources making their advent, but greenhouse gas emission reduction has also become a major factor in the development of vehicles with combustion...doctoral thesis 2022
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van Kuijk, J.J.A. (author)Fatigue crack growth in metals has been studied intensively for more than half a century. This research field has been closely connected to the engineering industry throughout history. It is therefore no surprise that the main focus has mostly been on developing better prediction models rather than on understanding the phenomenon of fatigue...doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, X. (author)Fatigue damage of composite laminates has attracted considerable attention from research community and industry, in view that laminated structures are inevitable to suffer from fatigue loading during their service life. It is rather complicated to understand and explain, what governs the initiation, accumulation, interaction (synergy or...doctoral thesis 2022
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Quan, H. (author)Fatigue failures are a major concern in aeronautics. The growth of fatigue cracks in metallic structures and adhesively bonded joints has been studied for decades. Nowadays, most researchers evaluate and predict the fatigue damage growth rate (da/dN) with empirical and phenomenon based approaches, using Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics with...doctoral thesis 2022
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Nazeer, N. (author)The aerospace industry is an ever-evolving field that has seen many technological advances over the past decades. The desire for aircraft to be not only efficient and reliable but also cheaper and safer has brought about many proposals across the industry. One of these advances is towards morphing aircraft wings to make wings lighter, more...doctoral thesis 2022
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Jongbloed, B.C.P. (author)One of the most promising welding techniques for thermoplastic composites is ultrasonic welding. It is mainly known as a spot welding technique. The relatively new technology continuous ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic composites makes it possible to obtain large fully welded seams with higher load carrying capabilities. However, at the start...doctoral thesis 2022
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Anand, C. (author)There has been a steady increase of composites and anisotropic materials in primary aircraft structures over the years. This increase is driven by the high strength to weight ratio of such materials leading to lighter and more efficient aircraft. As the uptake of such materials keeps increasing so does the complexity in geometry and manufacture...doctoral thesis 2021
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Bhangale, J.A. (author)The work done for this thesis is related to fatigue analysis of various material types used in the wind turbine blades. For the analysis, a framework from the thermodynamics of irreversible processes with internal variables and Continuum Damage Mechanics (CDM) is used. Thermodynamic principles provide a generic framework that is valid for the...doctoral thesis 2021
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Tsiangou, E. (author)Welding is a promising alternative to mechanical fastening, as currently used, to join dissimilar (i.e., thermoset- to thermoplastic-based) composite parts in modern aircraft. Thermoset composites can be indirectly welded through a thermoplastic coupling layer co-cured on the surface of the laminate that needs to be welded. One of the main...doctoral thesis 2021
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Koutras, N. (author)The use of high performance thermoplastic composites (TPCs) in the aviation industry has increased over the last years. TPCs have significant advantages such as superior damage tolerance, excellent chemical resistance and the ability to be welded. To date, mechanical fastening, primarily, and adhesive bonding are the two traditional joining...doctoral thesis 2020
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Kupski, J.A. (author)Adhesive bonding is one of the most suitable joining technologies in terms of weight and mechanical performance for current carbon fiber reinforced polymer aircraft fuselage structures. However, traditional joint topologies such as single overlap joints induce high peel stresses, resulting in sudden failure and low joint strength when compared...doctoral thesis 2020
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author)Prognostics is an emerging field of research that enables the real-time health assessment of an engineering system and the prediction of its future state based on up-to-date information. This field integrates various scientific disciplines including physics/mechanics, computational statistics and probabilistic modeling, machine learning and...doctoral thesis 2020
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Ochôa, Pedro (author)The adoption of composites as aircraft primary structural material has created a real need for a new aircraft maintenance philosophy to enable almost real-time structural condition assessment. It is thus crucial to develop structural health monitoring (SHM) systems capable of performing damage diagnostic and remaining useful life prognostic. At...doctoral thesis 2019