Kin-tak Lau

TL;DR: The fire performance of fiber-reinforced polymer composites used in naval ships, submarine and maritime structures are reviewed and discussed in this article, where composites have been developed and used for wide range of applications in aircraft, spacecraft, boats, ships, automobiles, civil infrastructure, sporting goods and consumer products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the damage resistance properties of SMA stitched glass/epoxy composites after low velocity impact are experimentally and theoretically studied, and the results show that the tensile strength of composite plates increased and the number of translaminar cracks decreased after being stitched by SMA wires.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cleaner and environmentally friendly surface modification technique for tussah silk in polymer based composites is proposed, which allows a wide control of the silk fibre's properties, making the silk fiber possible to be used for the development and production of novel bio-composites with unique/specific mechanical and biodegradable properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental characterisation of electrospun poly(lactic acid) (PLA):poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL) as drug carriers, at five blend ratios from 1:0, 3:1, 1:1 and 0:1 was holistically investigated in terms of their morphological structures, crystallinity levels and thermal properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simulation method for evaluating dynamic strain distribution along a uniform Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) using its reflection spectrum is presented. But the method is valid for simulating both uniform and non-uniform strain distributions along the FBG under various dynamic conditions.