Dr Liu Yang
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Area of Expertise
- 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
Prize And Awards
- Industry Fellow of Royal Academic of Engineering
- Recipient
- 2019
- Scottish Crucible Award
- Recipient
- 2017
Publications
- Non-circular cross-section fibres for composite reinforcement—a review with a focus on flat glass fibres
- Thomason James, Carlin Andrew, Yang Liu
- Fibers Vol 12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/fib12110098
- Hyperelastic behaviour of elastomers for wave energy applications
- Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Abad Farhad, Huang Yang, Dai Saishuai, Xiao Qing, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal
- Ocean Engineering Vol 313 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119652
- A review of natural fibres and biopolymer composites : progress, limitations, and enhancement strategies
- McKay Innes, Vargas Johnattan, Yang Liu, Felfel Reda M
- Materials Vol 17 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17194878
- Thermoset droplet curing performance in the microbond test
- Bryce David, Thomason James L, Yang Liu
- Composite Interfaces Vol 31, pp. 1247-1268 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09276440.2024.2337458
- Investigation of fibre modified silica aerogel composites
- Wang Kaibao, Yang Liu
- International Journal of Materials Research Vol 115, pp. 687-699 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2023-0201
- Numerical analysis of structured sheet material in flexible oscillating water column wave energy converter
- Huang Yang, Idarraga Guillermo, Xiao Qing, Yang Liu, Dai Saishuai, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
- Proceedings of the ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024) 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2024-121318
Teaching
ME16232 Engineering Mechanics: Structural Mechanics
ME523 Polymer and Polymer Composites
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)
Professional Activities
- Characterisation of validation of microscale testing of fibre matrix interphases
- Examiner
- 1/9/2023
- Frontiers in Materials (Journal)
- Associate Editor
- 2023
- Wind Power Research in Focus
- Invited speaker
- 2020
- RECOMP 2020 - Reuse and Recycling of FPR Composites
- Invited speaker
- 2020
- Energy Matters
- Contributor
- 2020
- Numerical Modelling of Interfacial behaviour of Carbon Fibre composites
- External Examiner
- 2020
Projects
- Polyurethane material testing (1)
- Comlekci, Tugrul (Principal Investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator)
- 12-May-2024 - 30-Aug-2024
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Kelly, Lewis
- Minty, Ross (Principal Investigator) Yang, Liu (Academic) Liggat, John (Co-investigator) Kelly, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 01-Apr-2027
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Thompson, Harry
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator) Thompson, Harry (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 01-Oct-2026
- KTP - RUA. Embed an understanding of polymer chemistry, rheology and process engineering for the in-house development of medical devices.
- Liggat, John (Principal Investigator) Cormack, Peter (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator)
- 09-May-2022 - 08-Nov-2024
- Products from Recycled Glass Fibre at Economic and Sustainable Scale (Progress)
- Yang, Liu (Principal Investigator) Bomphray, Iain (Co-investigator) Thomason, James (Co-investigator) Liu, Zhe (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Feb-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- Bionic Adaptive Stretchable Materials for WEC (BASM-WEC)
- Xiao, Qing (Principal Investigator) Bomphray, Iain (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Day, Sandy (Co-investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Liu
Yang
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: l.yang@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2324