Project description
In the ship building industry, marine propellers have been designed and manufactured out of metallic alloys for several centuries. The predominant material used to construct these propellers has been Nickel Aluminium Bronze and Manganese Nickel Aluminium Bronze due to their excellent mechanical properties. As these metallic propellers have almost reached a peak in their performance limit through countless years of design, the performance and efficiency of new materials needs to be investigated, such as carbon fibre composites. This project will investigate the performance of a composite propeller blade that has been fabricated. The fluid structural interaction of the composite propeller blade with be model in ANSYS using finite element analysis and computation fluid dynamics and compared with experimental results obtained from tow-tank tests.
Supervisors research focus
My research interests are in non-destructive testing, structural health monitoring, damage mechanics, composite technologies and solid mechanics.
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