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C. Glennon, W. Finnegan, P. Meier, Y. Jiang, J. Goggins, 2022. High cycle dynamic testing of marine hydrokinetic blades. Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 25-26 August.
B. Kelley, W. Finnegan, J. Goggins, 2022. Tensile Mechanical Testing of Powder Epoxy Glass Fibre Composites with Embedded Optical Fibre Sensors, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland. 25-26 August.
W. Finnegan, Y. Jiang, C. Glenno, P. Meier, L.C. Hung, J. Goggins. 2021. De-risking the next generating of tidal turbine blades through advanced full-scale structural testing, 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2021, Plymouth, UK. 5-9 September.
Feerick. P.J., “The Manufacture of Turbine Blades using High-Temperature Tooling and VOC–Free Polymer Composites”, Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture 2010”, Düsseldorf, Germany, December 2010.
W. Finnegan, T. Flanagan, M. Flanagan, S. Mitchell, J. Goggins, N. Harrison. 2022. Development of a lightweight airframe to enable drone delivery, 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland. 4-8 July.
Y. Jiang, W. Finnegan, R. Allen, S. Carey, T. Flanagan, J. Goggins. 2022. Design of composite components for improving structural performance of a drone. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland. 4-8 July.
Ó Brádaigh, CM, Doyle, A., Doyle, D. and Feerick. P.J., “One-Shot Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing using Powder-Epoxy and Electrically-Heated Ceramic Composite Tooling”, 7th International CFK-Valley Stade Convention, Germany, June 2013
Development of a numerical model of a novel leading edge protection component for wind turbine blades
Ó Brádaigh, C.M. “Manufacture of Composite Wind Turbine Blades using High-Temperature Integrally-Heated Composite Tooling”, Composites Innovation 2012, National Composites Centre, Bristol, UK, July 2012.
P. Dasan Keeryadath, M. Flanagan, R. Ó Coistealbha, A. Jimenez Del Toro, T. Flanagan, J. Goggins and W. Finnegan. 2021. Extending the life of wind turbine blades: innovative thermoplastic/epoxy composite system to reduce rain erosion, 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23), Belfast, Ireland. 1-6 August.
W. Finnegan, T. Flanagan, P. Cronin, J. Goggins. 2022. A proposed methodology for the development of a sustainable composite foil for a tidal turbine. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland. 4-8 July.
W. Finnegan, F. Wallace, P. Meier, L.C. Hung, Y. Jiang, R. Allen, C. Coyne, M. Flanagan and J. Goggins. 2021. 1 Mega-Newton: The highest load ever applied to a fibre-reinforced composite tidal turbine blade, 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23), Belfast, Ireland. 1-6 August.
W. Finnegan, C. Glennon, G. Kelly, J. Maguire, M. Flanagan, T. Flanagan, 2019. Manufacture of High Performance Tidal Turbine Blades using Composite Materials. 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2019, Napoli, Italy. 1-6 September.
W. Finnegan, T. Flanagan, C. Kelly, A. Ní Fhlatharta and J. Goggins. 2022. Improving the sustainability of fibre-reinforced polymer composite structures, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland. 25-26 August.
M. Flanagan, J. Goggins, W. Finnegan, T. Flanagan, 2022. Developments in the Manufacture of Powder Epoxy Fibre Re-enforced Polymer Composite Structures, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference 2022 (CERI 2022), Dublin, Ireland. 25-26 August.
Omid Sam-Daliri, Pouyan Ghabezi, Tomas Flanagan, William Finnegan, Sinéad Mitchell, Noel Harrison, Development of mechanical properties of short carbon fibre reinforced onyx composite waste for the use as 3D printing filament, 8th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, 27-30 June 2023
EP 2344312 B “A Heated Mould for Moulding Polymeric Composites”.
The Mould allows out-of-autoclave processing of epoxy powder and is suitable for manufacturing products such as wind and tidal blades and other large composite structures.