Publications
Doped Ru to enable next generation barrier-less interconnect Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
Scrutinizing the importance of surface chemistry versus surface roughness for aluminium/sol-gel film adhesion Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The sol-gel synthesis process is a versatile method used to produce a wide diversity of materials and is being increasingly used as a surface modification method to alter porosity, wettability, catalytic activity, biocompatibility and corrosion performance of underlying substrates. Silane sol–gel films deposited on aluminium and aluminium alloys have been widely studied as chemical conversion coatings and as coupling agent between the ...
Complex fracture on thin-wall textile reinforced cement (TRC) shells monitored by acoustic emission Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Novelly-designed thin-wall TRC shells are tested simulating service loads. The study tracks the main damage modes (cracking/interfacial delamination) using the Acoustic emission (AE) wave parameter trends and based on it, a novel multi-sensing and multi-input (experiments/simulations) methodology is built. It is shown that stronger shell curvature influences the stress field and the damage mode towards shear, something monitored by early AE ...