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de Vries, Sietse (author), Schuller, Tomás (author), Galindo-Rosales, Francisco J. (author), Fanzio, P. (author)Fused Filament Fabrication is an additive manufacturing technique in which molten thermoplastic polymers are extruded through a nozzle. Therefore, the interplay between the viscoelastic nature of the polymer melt, temperature, printing conditions and nozzle shape may lead to inconsistent extrusion. To improve the extrusion control and...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Jingping (author), Luo, Houcai (author), Wu, Huan (author), Zheng, Bofeng (author), Chen, Xianping (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, S. (author)With the increase in voltage level and current capacity of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), the avalanche effect has become an important factor limiting the safe operating area (SOA) of the device. The hole injection into the p/n junction on the backside of the IGBT after avalanche is the main feature that distinguishes the...journal article 2024
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Ulyanov, Boris (author)Liquid crystalline polymers have recently attracted attention for their great tensile properties. However, their interlaminar fracture toughness is low. To solve this, toughening approaches inspired by Nature are applied, exploiting the shaping freedom of fused deposition modelling. Three approaches are studied: the matchstick approach, z...master thesis 2023
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Mazza, F. (author)The present dissertation covers the development of ultrabroadband femtosecond/picosecond coherent Raman spectroscopy (CRS) to measure temperature and species concentrations in gas-phase chemically reacting flows.<br/>Since its first demonstration in 1965, CRS has been vastly employed as a non-linear optical spectroscopic technique to quantify...doctoral thesis 2023
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PAN, ZHE-HONG (author)In recent times, soft matter has gained significant interest among researchers in the fields of biomechanics and biomedicine, especially in areas like soft robotics and biopolymers, due to its remarkable ability to undergo substantial deformations. Soft robotics often requires materials that can flexibly adapt to or mimic the movements of living...master thesis 2023
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Singh, Dilpreet (author)The hot-filament chemical vapor deposition (HF-CVD) method is widely used for the synthesis of thin films of polycrystalline diamond. These films are used in a broad range of applications, such as coating material on cutting tools, heat spreaders, and electrochemical sensors. HF-CVD offers some unique advantages in terms of simplicity, low...master thesis 2023
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Ghahremani, Parsa (author), Najafabadi, Mehdi Ahmadi (author), Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Fotouhi, M. (author)This study investigates the mechanical behavior and damage mechanisms of thin-walled glass/epoxy filament wound tubes under quasi-static lateral loads. The novelty is that the tubes are reinforced in critical areas using strip composite patches to provide a topology-optimized tube, and their damage mechanisms and mechanical performance are...journal article 2023
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Alkharraa, H.S.H. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), AlQuraishi, Abdulrahman A. (author), Mahmoud, Mohamed A. (author), Deshenenkov, Ivan (author), AlDuhailan, Mohammed A. (author), Alarifi, Sulaiman A. (author), AlQahtani, Naif B. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)A full petrographic and petrophysical characterization of tight sandstones has been conducted as part of ongoing study of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery (CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR/EGR) and CO<sub>2</sub>sequestration. The main purpose of this study is to give novel perception into the interplay of the rock characteristics and fluid...journal article 2023
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Koshakji, Anwar (author), Chomette, Grégoire (author), Turner, Jeffrey (author), Jablonski, Jonathan (author), Haynes, Aisha (author), Carlucci, Donald (author), Giovanardi, Bianca (author), Radovitzky, Raúl A. (author)The dynamic response of flexible filaments immersed in viscous fluids is important in cell mechanics, as well as other biological and industrial processes. In this paper, we propose a parallel computational framework to simulate the fluid-structure interactions in large assemblies of highly-flexible filaments immersed in a viscous fluid. We...journal article 2023
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Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Bani Mohammad Ali, Amir (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)The aim of this research is to investigate the failure mechanisms of the filament-wound composite tubes under axial compressional loading by using an acoustic emission approach. First, the mechanical properties of ±45°C composite tubes were obtained experimentally. Then, failure due to the buckling phenomenon and crashworthiness...journal article 2023
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Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Nikbakht, Ali (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)By analyzing the failure mechanisms, crashworthiness characteristics of FW composite tubes subjected to two modes of progressive damage and catastrophic failure are investigated using acoustic emission technique and numerical method. The AE signals of ±45° composite tubes were classified using hierarchical and wavelet transform methods, and...journal article 2023
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Ozdemir, Mehmet (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author)We propose a new approach to obtain local property variations in 3D-printed objects using a single-nozzle 3D printer and one filament. We use foaming filaments which expand at different rates due to different temperatures. We present an approach to harness this varying expansion by including parameters of the 3D printing process in the design...conference paper 2023
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Bani Mohammad Ali, Amir (author), Valizadeh Sotubadi, Saleh (author), Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)Composite structures in transportation industries have gained significant attention due to their unique characteristics, including high energy absorption. Non-destructive testing methods coupled with machine learning techniques offer valuable insights into failure mechanisms by analyzing basic parameters. In this study, damage monitoring...journal article 2023
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de Vries, Sietse (author)Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is the most used additive manufacturing technique that uses a heated nozzle to melt a polymer and a feeder to extrude it on a buildplate. The dependencies of temperature, shear-rate, viscosity and pressure of the melt create complex dynamics within the nozzle, which causes inconsistent extrusion. To improve...master thesis 2022
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Bhosale, Ahaan (author)This project aims at developing a model to predict the damage initiation and propagation in a cylindrical filament-wound cord-rubber structure under internal pressurization using non-linear FEA, and is conducted in cooperation with TANIQ BV, Netherlands.<br/>Cord-reinforced rubber composites are used in several safety-critical industries such as...master thesis 2022
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Linssen, Jonathan (author)A broad range of bistable, multi-stable and neutrally stable compliant mechanisms have been developed over the years. These non-monostable systems show great potential for deployment in e.g. the medical, the manufacturing and the precision industry. Often the presence of prestress is a requirement for obtaining non-monostability within the realm...master thesis 2022
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Kos, Willem (author)Airbrushing is an affordable contactless printing technology capable of spraying fine lines to large areas with minimal adjustments. In the literature, deposition of conductive inks on substrates has primarily been researched using inkjet printing or direct ink writing. Despite its advantageous features, airbrushing is seldom used, and when so,...master thesis 2022
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Kuipers, T. (author)The products in our day to day lives have different requirements in different regions of the product. One way of dealing with such spatially varying requirements is to divide the product into multiple parts and assign each part a different material. For example, the handle of a drill is often fitted with a rubbery material which gives it more...doctoral thesis 2022
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Damage mechanism characterization of ±35° and ±55° FW composite tubes using acoustic emission methodAlimirzaei, Sajad (author), Najafabadi, Mehdi Ahmadi (author), Nikbakht, Ali (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)The focus of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties, of ±35° and ±55° filament wound (FW) composite tubes under axial compression loading using the acoustic emission technique. For this purpose, material failure, crashworthiness characteristics, and the effect of each mechanism on the energy absorption capacity were studied...journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Almeida, José Humberto S. (author), Ashok, Aravind (author), Wang, Zhonglai (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author)Variable-angle filament-wound (VAFW) cylinders are herein optimized for minimum mass under manufacturing constraints, and for various design loads. A design parameterization based on a second-order polynomial variation of the tow winding angle along the axial direction of the cylinders is utilized to explore the nonlinear steering-thickness...journal article 2022