Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My research interests focus on improving efficiency in composites manufacturing. This includes energy efficient cure, improving our understanding of defect and feature evolution during cure, human-robot collaborative manufacturing and knowledge management. My work includes the NextCOMP programme, intended to deliver improved composite performance under compression with a bio-inspired, hierarchical approach, and a collaboration with CERN in composites for high energy physics.
Research Groups and Themes
- Bristol Composites Institute ACCIS
Keywords
- Composite Manufacturing
- energy efficiency
- cobotics
- electromagnetic induction
- Biomimetics
- Hierarchical composites
- compression
- fibre-reinforced composites
- knowledge management
- knowledge transfer
- design for manufacture
- X-Ray computed tomography
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Research output
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The Experimental Investigation of the Compressive Performance of Pultruded Rod Composite Struts
Zhang, B., Pickard, L. R., Nwuzor, I. C., Darras, N. S. T., Wisnom, M. R., Allegri, G., Quino, G., Robinson, P. & Trask, R. S., 8 Aug 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper
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A physicist engineers bio-inspired composites: Astrophysics to Advanced Composites
Pickard, L. R., 12 Feb 2024, Fusion Newsletter, 22, 2, p. 17-22 6 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article (Specialist Publication)
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Characterisation of Highly-Aligned, Discontinuous, Fibre Composites for Compressive Performance
Lee, I. R., Longana, M. L., Pickard, L. R., Hamerton, I. & Allegri, G., 13 Feb 2024, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Composite Materials. 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
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Projects
- 4 Finished
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Workshop: Composites for High Energy Physics
Pickard, L. R. (Principal Investigator)
16/10/23 → 15/12/23
Project: Other
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Development of novel electromagnetic induction based manufacturing process for uniform and energy efficient composite cure
Pickard, L. R. (Principal Investigator), Ivanov, D. (Co-Investigator) & Uzzell, J. P. N. (Student)
1/09/23 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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Composites solutions for high energy physics
Pickard, L. R. (Principal Investigator)
19/12/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
Prizes
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Career Development Fellowship
Pickard, L. R. (Recipient), 26 Jan 2023
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Engineering Professors' Council 20th Anniversary Award Essay Competition
Pickard, L. R. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
- 1 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Workshop: Composites For High Energy Physics
Pickard, L. R. (Participant)
15 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Thesis
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Towards Efficient Composites Manufacture Through In-Process Monitoring and Knowledge Management
Pickard, L. R. (Author), Partridge, I. (Supervisor), Potter, K. (Supervisor), Kells, D. (Supervisor) & Shakspeare, P. (Supervisor), 25 Jun 2019Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Engineering Doctorate (EngD)
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