Kin-tak Lau

TL;DR: In this article, a modified clay hybrid (denoted as E-MMT) was directly used as a filler to improve the mechanical properties of the polymer, which was found that the Vicker's hardness and the impact intensity of nanocomposites increased effectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the mechanical performance of nanoclay/epoxy composites through micro-hardness and abrasive tests was discussed, and it was found that the hardness and wear resistance of NCs increased with an increase in the number of particles of up to 4 wt.

TL;DR: In this article, the constitutive relation and the electromechanical stability of compressible isotropic dielectric elastomers undergoing large deformation are investigated by applying a new kind of free energy model, which consists of elastic strain energy, composed of the Varga model as the volume conservative energy and the Blatz-Ko model as a volume non-conservative energy, and electric field energy with constant permittivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors for strain measurement in a rectangular composite-bonded concrete beam is reported, where three FBGs are multiplexed by using a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technique in the RF-band and embedded at three different locations at the interface between the composite reinforcement and surfaces of the concrete beam specimen.