Publications

• Legenstein, Alexander, Fuessel, L., Heider, D., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Cender, T.A., “Stretch-Steering of Highly Aligned Discontinuous Carbon Fiber Tape with Automated Fiber Placement, Composites Part B, Submitted August 2023
• Fuessel, Lukas, Cender, T., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Influence of Deformation of Complaint Rollers on Tape Steering During Automated Tape Placement”, ASC Conference, University of Massachusetts, https://www.asc-composites.org/ascc2023 , Sept. 17-20, 2023
• Parambil, Nithin K., Chen, B.R., Gillepsie, Jr., J.W., “Fatigue Performance of Highly Aligned Short Fiber IM7/LM-PAEK Thermoplastic Composites”, ASC Conference, University of Massachusetts, https://www.asc-composites.org/ascc2023, Sept. 17-20, 2023
• Parambil, Nithin K., Chen, B. R., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Process-Induced Residual Stress in a Single Carbon Fiber Semicrystalline Polypropylene Thin Flim”, Composite Part A, Submitted, July 2023
• Chen, Branndon R., Parambil, N.K., Deitzel, J.M., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Micro-Mechanical Investigation of Process-Induced Fiber Waviness in Thermoplastic Composites” ASC Conference, University of Massachusetts, https://www.asc-composites.org/ascc2023 , Sept. 17-20, 2023
• Cender, Thomas, Simacek, P., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Advani, S.G., “Experimental Characterization of Extensional Viscosity of Aligned Discontinuous Fiber Composites”, FPCM-15 (15th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials), https://www.purdue.edu/cmsc/fpcm/, June 27-29, 2023
• Legenstein, Alex, Fuessel, L., Cender, T., Heider, D., Tierney, J., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Stretch-Steering of Aligned Discontinuous Fiber Tapes on Higly Curved Paths Using Automated Fiber Placement”, SAMPE 2023, https://www.sampeamerica.org/ , April 17-20, 2023
• Ganesh, Raja, Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Dynamic 3D effects of single fiber tensile break within unidirectional composites including resin plasticity, residual stress, interfacial debonding and sliding friction”,https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983231199168 , Journal of Composite Materials, Submitted, August 2023
• Ganesh, Raja, AbuObaid, A., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Novel Continuous Fiber Bending Experiment to Determine Size- and Spatial- Distributions of Surface Defects in Glass Fibers”, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110146, Composite Science and Technology, Volume 241, August 2023, 110146
• Ganesh, Raja, AbuObaid, A., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Experimental Determination of Bimodal Strength Distribution of S-Glass Fibers”, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2023.110559, Composites Part B, Volume 254, April 2023, 110559
• Tetteh, Obed, Kubota, M., Mensah, P., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Li, G., “Evaluation of the Interfacial Shear Strength, and Self-Healing of a New IM7 Single Fiber Reinforced Multifunctional Vitrimer Composite”, ASME 2023 October 2023
• 2023 ImaginAviation Poster – 2023-UD-CCM-ULI-Poster-Contact-Info-and-Videos-ImaginAviation.pdf
• “Highly-Aligned Discontinuous Fiber Composites (TuFF): Progress and Challenges”, SAMPE 2022 Featured Speaker: Shridhar Yarlagadda.
• “Composite Manufacturing Technologies for Aerospace Performance at Automotive Production Rates:, NASA ULI Tech Talk Series-April 2022 Featured Speaker: John W. Gillespie, Jr.
• Parambil, Nithin K., Chen, B., Deitzel, J., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “A Methodology for Predicting Processing Induced Thermal Residual Stress in Thermoplastic Composite at the Microscale”, Composites Part B, volume 231, 109562, 2021.
• Simacek P., Advani S. G., Gillespie Jr. J. W., “Modeling Short Fiber Deformation in Dilute Suspension: Fiber Deposition”, Composites Science and Technology, volume 218, 109149, 2021.
• Fidlow, H., Cender, T. “Extentional Viscosity of Thermoplastic TuFF Composite in Stretch Forming Processes”, SAMPE 2022, Charlotte, NC, May 23-26, 2022.
• Cender, Thomas A., Fidlow, H., Yarlagadda, S., Heider, D., Simacek, P., Advani, S.G., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Forming Limits of TuFF Composites in Stretch”, SAMPE 2022, Charlotte, NC, May 23-26, 2022.
• Chen, Branndon R., Prakash, K., Yarlagadda, S., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Fatigue Performance of Thermoplastic TuFF Composites”, SAMPE 2022, Charlotte, NC, May 23-26, 2022.
• Fussel, Lukas, Cender, T.A., Austermann, V., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Heider, D., “Tow Steering of Stretchable TuFF Thermoplastic Tape with Laser Tape Placement”, SAMPE 2022, Charlotte, NC, May 23-26, 2022.
• Abu-Obaid, Ahmad, Ganesh, R., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., “Investigation of Size and Spatial Distribution of Defects in S2 Glass Fibers Using Continuous Bending Test Method”, SAMPE 2022, Charlotte, NC, May 23-26, 2022.
• Parambil, Nithin K., Chen, B.R., Deitzel, J.M., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Vo, L.T., Sarosi, P., “Predicting Processing Induced Residual-Stresses in Carbon-Fiber-Thermoplastic Micro-Composites”, ASC Conference, Virtual Event, Sept. 19-22, 2021.
• Chen, Branndon R., N.K. Parambil, J. Deitzel, J.W. Gillespie, Jr., L.T. Vo, P. Sarosi, “Interfacial Shear Strength (IFSS) and Absorbed Energy versus Temperature in Carbon Fiber-Thermoplastic Composites via Single Fiber Pullout Testing,” ASC 2020, https://asc2020nyc/ September 14-17, 2020.
• Yarlagadda, Shridhar, Deitzel, J.M., Heider, D., Tierney, J. and Gillespie, Jr., J. W.,“Tailorable Universal Feedstock for Forming (TuFF): Overview and Performance:, SAMPE 2019, Charlotte, NC.
• Heider, Dirk, Tierney, J., Henchir, M., Gargitter, V., Yarlagadda, S., Gillespie Jr., J. W., Sun, J., Sietins, J., and Knorr, D.,“Microstructural Evaluation of Aligned, Short Fiber TuFF Material”, SAMPE 2019, Charlotte, NC.
• Yarlagadda, Shridhar, Advani, S., Deitzel, J., Heider, D., Molligan, D., Roseman, D., Simacek, P., Tierney, J., and Gillespie, Jr., J. W., “Formability of TuFF Composite Blanks”, SAMPE 2019, Charlotte, NC
• Heider, D., Tierney, J., Deitzel, J., Kubota, M., Thiravong, J., Gargitter, V., Burris, W., Morris, J., Shevchenko, N., Yarlagadda, S., and Gillespie, Jr., J. W., “Closed Loop Recycling of CFRP into Highly Aligned High Performance Short Fiber Composites Using The TuFF Process”, SAMPE 2019, Charlotte, NC.