Dr Luiz Kawashita
B.Eng., Ph.D.(Lond.)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AERO ROLLS-ROYCE UTC 2018
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
01/08/2016
Additive Layer Manufacturing - First Grant
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
01/01/2016 to 30/06/2017
Thesis supervisions
Fatigue behaviour of carbon fibre composites subjected to load reversals and variable mode ratios
Supervisors
Fatigue Behaviour of Composites under VIbration and Thermal Loading
Supervisors
Investigating geometrical and manufacturing effects on the impact performance of UHMWPE composites
Supervisors
Suppressing Delamination Through Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VACNT) Interleaves
Supervisors
Advanced numerical methods for modelling impact in composite materials
Supervisors
Effect of voids on the interlaminar failure of carbon/epoxy composites
Supervisors
An improved description of the bonding and consolidation for overmoulded thermoplastic composite ribbed plates
Supervisors
Novel interfaces in hybrid composite-metal struts
Supervisors
An adaptive shell model with variable-kinematics for the analysis of laminated structures
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/09/2023Efficient sublaminate-scale impact damage modelling with higher-order elements in explicit integration
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Manufacturing composite laminates with controlled void content through process control
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
A geometrically nonlinear variable-kinematics continuum shell element for the analyses of laminated composites
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
Mesh independent modelling of tensile failure in laminates using mixed-time integration in explicit analysis
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Predicting short beam shear strength reduction in carbon/epoxy laminates containing voids
Composite Structures
Related people
Professor Michael Wisnom
Professor of Aerospace Structures
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Dr ByungChul Eric Kim
Associate Professor in Composites Design and Manufacture
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Professor Stephen Hallett
Professor in Composite Structures
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Dr Iryna Tretiak
Lecturer
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Dr Tharan Gordon
Visiting Senior Research Associate
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering