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Final Year Undergraduate Projects

2007

Chris Kenny, "Modelling the strength limiting flaw sizes within brittle materials"

Rylan Arms, "A report on the effect of various flaw distributions on the derivation of the Weibull curve"

2006

Helmi Sumardi Kho, "Cellulose fibre reinforced polymer with green composites"

Lap Tak Chan, "Carbon fibre bundle pull-out test"

Marc Atherden, "Mechanical properties of hybrid polymer matrix composites"

Saruj Termvivat, "Mapping of nanostructures and properties in biological materials"

Victor Tran, "Literature review of fibre buckling in composite materials"

2005

Benjamin James, "Computer control of a micro-tensile testing machine"

Cornelius Nurimba, "Marine applications of cellulose fibre-reinforced plastics"

Harry Kim, "Development of garnet suspensions for use in a novel UHP (ultra high pressure) cutting system"

James Hallam, "Critical comparison between low cost FEA packages as a teaching aid"

Jonathan Connell, "Modelling the strength of ceramic matrix composites(CMCs) with strong interfaces"

Maciek Bilski, "Analysis of stress reduction strategies in engineering components using finite element analysis"

Marco Garcia, "Visualisation of engineering problems on the Internet using Macromedia Flash"

Nick Johnsen, "Design and manufacture of a high-temperature vacuum hot-press for composite materials"

Richard Baillie, "Modelling the single fibre fragmentation test"

2004

Christopher J. Savietto, "Packing density of spheres with variable radii"

Daniel Murphy, "Carbon fibre bundle pull-out test"

Eric L. H. Fut, "Experimental investigation of fibre strength measured in situ a partially oxidised ceramic matrix composite"

Luke C. Bennett, "Influence of test geometry on the failure mode of brittle materials"

Ofa Mafua, "Bundle fibre strength with variable radii"

Travis Davey, "Influence of surface curvature on the creep lifetime of glass coated ceramic matrix composites"

Voon Kai Vui, "Comparison between linear and non-linear least squares curve fitting of Weibull strength data"

2003

Hilton Andrew, "Influence of fibre radius variation on the packing density of fibre bundles"

Joseph Low, "Design and manufacture of a miniature testing machine for the evaluation of tensile strength in individual ceramic fibres"

Leith Place, "Influence of fibre radius variation on the strength of individual brittle fibres"

Mabel See, "Influence of flaw orientation on the failure of brittle materials"

Marcin Machalski, "Investigation of experimental error for creep rates determined in ceramic fibres with variable radii"

Nurulaini Ariffin, "Influence of introduced specimen damage on the failure mode of brittle materials"

Sorn Sieng, "Oxidation damage and strength reduction of fibre bundles in a ceramic matrix composite"

Tim Lowe, "Ultra high pressure nozzle development for waterjet cleaning and cutting"

Publications co-authored with final year undergraduate project students

[8] I. M. Low, J. Somers, H. S. Kho, I. J. Davies, and B. A. Latella, “Fabrication and properties of recycled cellulose fibre-reinforced epoxy composites”, Composite Interfaces, in press (2008).

[7]   I. J. Davies, S. Sieng, T. Ogasawara, and T. Ishikawa, “Influence of oxidation on the micro-mechanical properties of a 3-D woven SiC/SiC composite tested in air at 1100 ^oC”, Ceram. Trans., 192 pp. 175-186 (2006).

[6]   J. Connell and I. J. Davies, “Modelling the influence of oxidation on the strength of ceramic fibres”, Paper S5-08 in Proceedings of the 9th Japan international SAMPE symposium (JISSE-9) (edited by K. Kageyama and J. Takahashi), November 29-December 2 2005, Tokyo, Japan, Japan chapter of SAMPE, Tokyo, Japan (2005).

[5]   M. S. C. Ling and I. J. Davies, “Fracture behaviour of brittle materials containing inclined flaws”, Paper S5-21 in Proceedings of the 9th Japan international SAMPE symposium (JISSE-9) (edited by K. Kageyama and J. Takahashi), November 29-December 2 2005, Tokyo, Japan, Japan chapter of SAMPE, Tokyo, Japan (2005).

[4]   T. R. Lowe, I. M. Low, I. J. Davies, and D. Liwszyc, “Ceramic solutions for ultra-high pressure (UHP) waterjet nozzles”, pp. 17-18 in Proceedings of Austceram & the third international conference on advanced materials processing, November 29-December 1 2004, Melbourne, Australia (2004).

[3]   E. L. H. Fut, I. J. Davies, T. Ogasawara, and T. Ishikawa, “Fibre strength measured in situ a 3-D woven SiC/SiC composite creep tested in air at 1100 ^oC”, pp. 167-172 in New Frontiers of Process Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials (PSEA'04) - Part 2 (edited by M. Naka and T. Yamane), November 24-26 2004, Kyoto, Japan, High Temperature Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan (2004).

[2]   M. Machalski and I. J. Davies, “Ceramic fibre creep rates: The effect of variable fibre radius”, pp. 877-880 in Proceedings of the 8th Japan international SAMPE symposium (JISSE-8) - volume 2 (edited by N. Takeda, H. Hamada, S. Ogihara, and A. Nakai), November 18-21 2003, Tokyo, Japan, Japan chapter of SAMPE, Tokyo, Japan (2003).

[1]   H. Stark and I. J. Davies, “Maximum fibre bundle packing density of variable radius fibres”, pp. 1161-1164 in Proceedings of the 8th Japan international SAMPE symposium (JISSE-8) - volume 2 (edited by N. Takeda, H. Hamada, S. Ogihara, and A. Nakai), November 18-21 2003, Tokyo, Japan, Japan chapter of SAMPE, Tokyo, Japan (2003).