Projects per year
Personal profile
Expertise & Capabilities
- Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
- Multi-scale Material Modelling
- Aerogel composites
- Composites Recycling
- Composites Interface
- Reinforcement Fibres
- Surface Coating
- Mechanical Testing
- Polymer and Elastomer
- Thermomechanical Analysis
Research Interests
Current research activities focus on
Composites recycling and reuse (This work includes the development of economically viable routes to recycling fibre reinforced composites and reusing recyclates in new industrial applications)
Composites interface (This work centres around fibre-matrix physicochemcial interactions through surface characterisation, coating development, and fibre-matrix adhesion engineering)
Aerogel composites (This work includes the design and development of ultralight, strong, superinsulating aerogel composites for energy saving applicaitons)
Self-healing elastomer (This work centres on the chemical design and material engineering of elastomer materials for improving wear resistance and damage self-mitigation)
Multi-scale material modelling (This work revolves around understanding and engineering of structure-property relationship through multi-scale material modelling)
Teaching Interests
ME16232 Engineering Mechanics: Structural Mechanics
ME523 Polymer and Polymer Composites
Industrial Relevance
Industrial Links
- PPG Industries (The Netherlands)
- 3B Fibreglass (Belgium)
- Blueshift International Materials (USA)
- BOSCH (Germany)
- Sain-Gobain (France)
- Weir Group PLC (UK)
- Composites Scaffolding Company (UK)
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Master in Science, University of Sheffield
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Projects 2014 2023
A paradigm shift towards nonmetallic centrifugal slurry pumps (Industrial Fellowship)
Weir Group plc (The), Royal Academy of Engineering RAE
30/09/19 → 29/09/23
Project: Research Fellowship
Research Output 1992 2019
A study of the thermal degradation of glass fibre sizings at composite processing temperatures
Thomason, J. L., Nagel, U., Yang, L. & Bryce, D., 30 Jun 2019, In : Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 121, p. 56-63 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Glass fibers
Pyrolysis
Composite materials
Processing
Polypropylenes
Investigation of atmospheric moisture during heat treatment of glass fibres
Jenkins, P. G., Yang, L. & Thomason, J. L., 1 Apr 2019, In : Fibers. 7, 4, 8 p., 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Glass fibers
Moisture
Heat treatment
Water
Fibers
Thesis
Recycling, regenerating and reusing reinforcement glass fibres
Author: Pender, K., 1 Apr 2018Supervisor: Yang, L. (Supervisor) & Thomason, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
The influence of matrix stoichiometry on interfacial adhesion in composites for wind turbine applications
Author: Minty, R., 1 Feb 2018Supervisor: Thomason, J. (Supervisor) & Yang, L. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Activities 2018 2018
- 1 Membership of committee
Scottish Plastics and Rubber Association (External organisation)
Liu Yang (Advisor)1 Sep 2018 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee