Armin Yousefi Kanani

"The use of adhesive joints attracts most attentions due to their advantages of enabling the development of lightweight and cost-effective structures. However, current researches in adhesive joining mainly focus on the joints between same adherends. The aim of the project is to develop and validate a new self-adaptive multi-material adhesive joint (SMAJ), which could adapt the stress concentrations caused by configuration of the joint and mechanical properties of different adherends under both mechanical and thermal loadings. The project will involve design of a new configuration of SMAJ, design of new testing methods, mechanical tests (lap shear, creep/relaxation and fatigue), thermal dynamic tests and Finite element modelling. Finally, the design principles will be summarised."

Thesis title: Mechanical Characterization of Fibre Reinforced Composite Material and the Buckling Performance of their Laminated Plate.The FRP composite materials are widely used in industry and in this project critical buckling loads of laminated composite plates with different stacking sequences are determined through experimental and finite element method.Tensile and Buckling tests have been used to find out property of material and critical buckling load respectively. I also used Abqus software to find out critical buckling load. The results from these two methods are compared and recommendation for replacing tests with modelling was made.