Dr Liu Yang

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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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

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Publications

A general FSI framework for an effective stress analysis on composite wind turbine blades
Deng ZhongSheng, Xiao Qing, Huang Yang, Yang Liu, Liu YuanChuan
Ocean Engineering Vol 291 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.116412
Glass fibre composites recycling using the fluidised bed : a study into the economic viability in the UK
Pender Kyle, Yang Liu
Clean Technologies and Recycling Vol 3, pp. 221-240 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3934/ctr.2023014
Novel computational fluid dynamics-finite element analysis solution for the study of flexible material wave energy converters
Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Dai David, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
Physics of Fluids Vol 35 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160328
A CFD-FEM analysis for Anaconda WEC with mooring lines
Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Idarraga Alarcon Guillermo, Yang Liu, Dai David, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
Proceedings of the 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2023 (2023)
Numerical analysis of flexible tube wave energy converter using CFD-FEA method
Huang Yang, Xiao Qing, Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Dai Saishuai, Abad Farhad, Brennan Feargal, Lotfian Saeid
Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2023)
Hyperelastic modelling of elastomers for wave energy convertors
Idarraga Guillermo, Yang Liu, Abad Farhad, Huang Yang, Dai David, Xiao Qing, Lotfian Saeid, Brennan Feargal
Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2023)

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Teaching

ME16232 Engineering Mechanics: Structural Mechanics

ME523 Polymer and Polymer Composites

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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
Energy Matters
Contributor
2020
Polymers (Journal)
Guest editor
2020
Numerical Modelling of Interfacial behaviour of Carbon Fibre composites
External Examiner
2020

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Projects

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Thompson, Harry
Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator) Thompson, Harry (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-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-Jan-2022 - 08-Jan-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-Jan-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-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | McGurk, Michael
Feng, Jinglang (Principal Investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator) McGurk, Michael (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
RSE COP 26 INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORK GRANT
Yang, Liu (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021

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Dr Liu Yang
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Email: l.yang@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2324