Biography Meng

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This page shows the gallery of my research. For more information, please refer to the technical pages.

Composite fatigue

The fatigue failure of laminated composites in bending is so-called buckling driven delamination. The FEA models were solved by ABAQUS/Standard.

Mechanics of composites

3D FEA is capable to simulate the mechanics behaviour of laminated composites with arbitrary layups, and to provide more accurate results. This model was solved by COMSOL Multiphysics. For more details, please click here to read the published paper (link to ScienceDirect).

Classical laminate theory

MATLAB tools based on CLT were developed to predict the properties of laminated composites and to analyse the experimental data. To download the MATLAB code with the complied tools, please click here: 2D version, 3D version, 3-point bending, and 4-point bending

Marine composites

The effects of marine environment exposure on the carbon fibre-epoxy composites were examined by SEM. The mechanical properties are significantly reduced after short term sea water immersion due to the edge effects, while the damage to the fibre/polymer interface becomes more significant to laminate degradation after longer-term immersion. For more details, please click here to read the published paper (link to ScienceDirect).

CFD modelling: marine turbine

After the oscilation, it is possible to self-start for Darrieus marine tidal turbine. The CFD model was solved by ANSYS/FLUENT.

Statistics: fibre misalignment

The statistical work showed that the fibre misalignment follows Gaussian distribution, and the average misalignment angle is in range of 2°-3°. For more details, please click here to read the published paper (link to ScienceDirect).

Statistics: fibre packing

The statistical work showed that the fibre central distance follows Weibull distribution. For more details, please click here to read the published paper (link to ScienceDirect).