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Contact us We are based at the University of Bristol in Bristol Composites Institute and the Composites Centre at Imperial College London.Postal address Bristol Composites InstituteUniversity of BristolQueen’s BuildingUniversity WalkBristolBS8 1TRUK Email...
Meet the team The HiPerDuCT team is based at the University of Bristol in Bristol Composites Institute and the Composites Centre at Imperial College London.Team categories Investigators Associated academics Researchers and PhD students InvestigatorsProfessor...
Theme C: Ductile constituents This theme aims to design composite constituents that will enable new mechanisms for ductility, whilst retaining high strength and stiffness. These will ultimately be integrated with novel architectures to produce high performance...
Theme B: Aligned fibre and interface approaches The theme aims to design and evaluate aligned fibre approaches that achieve a ductile or pseudo-ductile response, while maintaining strength and stiffness. This theme explores hybridisation, aligned discontinuous fibre...
Theme A: Fibre reorientation concepts The aim of work in this theme is to design and evaluate composite architectures that create ductility via geometrical rearrangement of fibre orientation, matched to tailored matrix characteristics.Example It has been successfully...
Results HiPerDuCT takes a number of approaches to achieving more gradual failure. We have grouped these approaches into three broad themes.Themes Theme A – Fibre reorientation concepts Theme B – Aligned fibre and interface approaches Theme C – Ductile constituents...
Where next? It’s important to remember that this is a research project, exploring very novel materials and techniques. However, in common with much university research these days, we have a big focus on practical applications and creating real-world impacts.What we're...
Public resources Composite materials like carbon fibre are often seen as materials of the future, but the truth is that lots of different types of composite materials are already used to make things you probably use every day: from bikes, golf clubs, tennis racquets...
The basics An introduction to carbon fibre, composites and their useful properties: What are they What makes them such good materials for engineering? Carbon fibres are just that: thin strands of carbon. Most carbon fibres are created from chemicals called precursors,...