Optical quality mirrors are heavy, expensive and difficult to manufacture. This paper presents a novel mirror concept based on an active laminate consisting of an ultra-thin carbon-fiber shell bonded to a piezo-ceramic active layer coated with patterned electrodes. Mirrors based on this concept are less than 1 mm thick and hence are very lightweight and flexible. They also have a large dynamic ...

This paper reports on a low-cost low-temperature (≤150°C) laminate batch fabrication process for implementation of high-Q RF passive components (inductors and capacitors) in system-on-package (SOP) applications. Using this process, various designs of integrated inductors with Q-factors in the range of 60-180 for Bluetooth/IEEE 802.11b (2.4GHz), GSM1800 (1.8GHz) and GSM900 (900 MHz) communicatio...

Theoretical models are developed for heat conduction and thermal expansion in a fiber-reinforced ceramic cross-ply laminate containing an array of parallel transverse matrix cracks. Two stages of the transverse matrix cracks are considered : Stage-I with tunnel cracks in the 90” plies aligned parallel to the fibers, and Stage-II with cracks extended across both the 90 and 0” plies with intact f...

The integration and miniaturization trend of the electronic packaging leads to much finer pitch of the device and package lead terminations. Several reliability concerns and issues that were previously not encountered are now surfacing. The objective of this thesis work is to investigate the reliability of the package-to-board interconnection from the perspective of solder joint metallurgy. It ...

This paper developed three-dimensional (3D) Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to investigate the effect of fibre lay-up on the initiation of failure of laminated composites in bending. TsaiHill failure criterion was applied to identify the critical areas of failure in composite laminates. In accordance with the 3D FEA, unidirectional ([0]16), cross-ply ([0/90]4s) and angle-ply ([±45]4s) laminates m...

Fluid flows through anisotropic media are found in a wide variety of geophysical and biological systems. The macroscale behavior of these systems depends on the microstructure, which in turn may depend on local and global physical processes. Classically, geometric restrictions are needed to model these systems on the largest length scale, and we are interested in developing effective models whi...

A continuum damage mechanics (CDM) meso-model was derived for both intraply and interply progressive failure behaviors of a 2D woven-fabric composite laminate under a transversely low velocity impact. An in-plane anisotropic damage constitutive model of a 2D woven composite ply was derived based on CDM within a thermodynamic framework, an elastic constitutive model with damage for the fibre dir...

This paper presents the study of influence of laminate sequence and fabric type on the baseline acoustic nonlinearity of fiber-reinforced composites. Nonlinear elastic wave techniques are increasingly becoming popular in detecting damage in composite materials. It was earlier observed by the authors that the non-classical nonlinear response of fiber-reinforced composite is influenced by the fib...

background : in anterior endodontically treated teeth a better esthetic can be achieved by using all-ceramic post -core restorations instead of metal post systems. maximum retention and fracture resistance of the post are the criteria upon which selection of a post system is based. the aim of this study was to evaluate the fracture resistance and retention of two all-ceramic post and core syste...

The production of large and complex parts using fiber composite materials is costly due to the frequent formation of voids, porosity and waste products. By embedding different types of sensors and monitoring the process in real time, the amount of wastage can be significantly reduced. This work focuses on developing a knowledge-based method to improve and ensure complete impregnation of the fib...