Antonio Fernandez-Lopez

TL;DR: In this article, a general kinetic equation that describes the degradation of the material with temperature has been proposed and validated using a combination of in-situ and ex-Situ experimental techniques, including kinetic modelling, not only provides reliable information about degradation but also allows setting optimal processing conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of three different ultrasound techniques for detecting and characterising out-of-plane wrinkles in the typical glass-carbon hybrid laminates that are used for wind-turbine blades was compared.

TL;DR: In this article, the UPMSat-2 satellite project is analyzed as an academic tool to involve different groups of students into a big project,encouraging them not only to develop specific skills in relation to a single subsystem of the satellite, but also to harmonize their work with the results from other groups working on other different subsystems.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel approach to detect and locate buckling from distributed optical sensors is proposed by means of a second derivative analysis of the strain measurements, which demonstrates that non-linear events are prone to significant changes in the full-field strain shape obtained using a dense distributed optical network, whose measurements were processed earlier using a Savitzy-Golay filter.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to use multiple sensing points, and to reduce the huge amount of information by pattern recognition techniques, as PCA, to obtain damage information from strain measurements.