Dr Xiaodong Xu
BSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Visiting Research Fellow
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Dr Xiaodong Xu's research interests are Scaling effects, Adhesive joints, Fracture mechanics and Enviromental Effects in advanced composites.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Bristol-Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Bonded Structures Project
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/09/2016 to 31/03/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/07/2025On residual tensile strength after lightning strikes
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
The effects of environmental conditions on the failure of double lap composite joints with different overlap lengths and adherend thicknesses
Composite Structures
Hygrothermal effects on translaminar fracture toughness of quasi-isotropic laminates with different stacking sequences
Composites Communications
Measurement, Interpretation and Application of R-Curves for Translaminar Fracture Toughness of Composite Laminates
Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 38th Technical Conference, ASC 2023
ON PREDICTING TRANS-LAMINAR FRACTURE OF QUASI-ISOTROPIC CARBON/EPOXY LAMINATES USING R-CURVES
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