Mr Vincent Maes
MSc, BSc, PhD
Expertise
I work on composite manufacturing, focused on understanding and controlling defects as well as process design and optimisation, with strong links to industry and international academic partners.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringLecturer in Aerospace Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Additively Manufactured Cure Tooling
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/11/2021 to 30/09/2022
Heated Tooling For Complex and Variable Thickness Composite Structures
Principal Investigator
Description
Impact Accelerator Account: Exploratory Impact Award.
Knowledge and understanding from university research programmes was used to trial methods for industry to increase production rates and reduce manufacturing embodied energy for high…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/10/2021 to 31/03/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/05/2026Assessment of out-of-plane ply waviness in carbon-fibre reinforced plastics
NDT & E International
Automated Tape Relaying to monitor and control first-ply deposition
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Prediction of Cure‐Induced Wrinkles Aimed at the Manufacturing of Large Wind Turbine Blades
Polymer Composites
How geometrical imperfections and thermal gradients affect wrinkle formation during curing of thick composite laminates
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
In-plane waviness parameterisation from in-factory photographs of non-crimp fabrics
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Thesis
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