dr. J. Seyyed Monfared Zanjani (Jamal)

Jamal S. M. Zanjani is an assistant professor at the Surface Technology and Tribology (STT) group within the faculty of engineering technology. He holds a sectorplan position focusing on interface design for hybrid lightweight structures.

He obtained both his Bachelor's and Master's in Polymers Engineering and a PhD in Material science and Engineering with a research emphasis on the processing and mechanics of complex materials and composites.

He has received many awards and fellowships for his research activities, including the best thesis award for his PhD thesis, several presentation awards, Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship and several project grants.

His research focuses on creating correlations between processing, microstructure, properties, and product performance in multilateral hybrid structures. His group pays particular attention to the interphases and interfaces between the constituents as it is key to attain a reliable hybrid structure. His team develops experimental techniques as well as modelling tools to analyze and describe the physical mechanisms at the interface and exploit them for optimizing the short and long-term structural performances of hybrid structures.

His teaching activities cover different modules in mechanical engineering at undergraduate and graduate levels. He is also offering a graduate-level course on adhesion and bonding technologies.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Acoustic Emissions
# Carbon Fibers
# Composite Materials
# Fibers
# Graphene
# Laminates
# Nanocomposites
# Thermoplastics

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Surface Technology and Tribology (STT)

Stationary contacts & bonding in hybrid structural materials

Hybridization of materials is defined as the process of combining two or more materials to optimally serve a specific purpose. Hybridization of materials is a potent strategy for creating material systems with properties that do not exist in a single material. Hybridization includes joining similar or dissimilar entities e.g. polymer-polymer, polymer-metal, polymer-ceramic, etc to obtain lightweight, yet reliable, predictable and robust load-carrying structural materials. Hybridization offers many advantages including:

Right properties at the right place
Weight reduction
Improved performance
Higher manufacturability

The performance of hybrid structural materials is largely controlled by the interfaces between their constituents. Therefore, we pay particular attention to the interphases and interfaces between the constituents. Our team develops experimental techniques as well as modelling tools facilitating the interface design for the next generation of advanced lightweight hybrid structural materials. It covers process design, surface pre-treatment, surface characterization, bond performance, and joint design. The group is well versatile in surface pre-treatment techniques and associated surface and interface characterization methods to analyse, describe and optimise the interface formation between various material pairs. The focus is on creating correlations between processing, microstructure, properties, and product performance at the interface to optimise the short and long-term structural performance of hybrid structures. We look for innovative engineering solutions through hybridization and new manufacturing techniques covering:

Surface pre-treatment (Physical, mechanical, chemical)
Surface/interface characterizations
Adhesive bonding, co-bonding, polymer welding
Additive manufacturing of thermoplastics
Interface design for polymer-metal hybrids
Thermoset-thermoplastic interphases
Wind turbine production and maintenance
Non-destructive testing/damage assessment

Erartsin, O. , Zanjani, J. S. M. , & Baran, I. (2023). Unravelling the interphase - bond strength relationship in novel co-bonded thermoplastic - thermoset hybrid composites for leading edge protection of wind turbine blades. Polymer testing, 117, [107856]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2022.107856

Erartsin, O. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J. , & Baran, I. (2022). Bond Strength of Co-Bonded Thermoplastic Leading Edge Protection (LEP): The Effect of Processing-Driven Interphase Morphology. In G. Vincze, & F. Barlat (Eds.), Key Engineering Materials (Vol. 926, pp. 1786-1794) https://doi.org/10.4028/p-65fvc8

Erartsin, O. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J. , & Baran, I. (2022). Thermoset/Thermoplastic Interphases: The Role of Initiator Concentration in Polymer Interdiffusion. Polymers, 14(7), [1493]. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071493

Han, N. , Yuksel, O. , Zanjani, J. S. M., An, L. L. , Akkerman, R. , & Baran, I. (2022). Experimental Investigation of the Interlaminar Failure of Glass/Elium^® Thermoplastic Composites Manufactured With Different Processing Temperatures. Applied composite materials, 29(3), 1061-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-021-10000-5

Tabrizi, I. E., Oz, F. E. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Mandal, S. K., & Yildiz, M. (2022). Failure sequence determination in sandwich structures using concurrent acoustic emission monitoring and postmortem thermography. Mechanics of materials, 164, [104113]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2021.104113

Erartsin, O. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J. , & Baran, I. (2021). Warpage of fiber-reinforced thermoset polymers co-bonded to thermoplastics. In Sampe Europe 2021 Conference Proceedings

Tabrizi, I. E., Kefal, A. , Zanjani, J. S. M., & Yildiz, M. (2021). Damage growth and failure detection in hybrid fiber composites using experimental in-situ optical strain measurements and smoothing element analysis. International journal of damage mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895211045121

Tabrizi, I. E., Alkhateab, B. , Zanjani, J. S. M., & Yildiz, M. (2021). Using digital image correlation for in situ strain and damage monitoring in hybrid fiber laminates under in‐plane shear loading. Polymer composites, 42(8), 4029-4042. https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.26114

Zanjani, J. S. M. , & Baran, I. (2021). Co-Bonded Hybrid Thermoplastic-Thermoset Composite Interphase: Process-Microstructure-Property Correlation. Materials, 14(2), 1-17. [291]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14020291

Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., Yousefi Louyeh, P., Emami Tabrizi, I., Al-Nadhari, A. S., & Yildiz, M. (2021). Thermo-responsive and shape-morphing CF/GF composite skin: Full-field experimental measurement, theoretical prediction, and finite element analysis. Thin-Walled Structures, 160, [106874]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2020.106874

Beylergil, B., Tabrizi, I. E. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Saeidiharzand, S., Poudeh, L. H., & Yildiz, M. (2021). Experimental failure analysis and mechanical performance evaluation of fiber-metal sandwich laminates interleaved with polyamide-6,6 interlayers through the combined usage of acoustic emission, thermography and microscopy techniques. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 23(7), 3044-3080. https://doi.org/10.1177/1099636220924654

Han, N. , Baran, I. , Zanjani, J. S. M. , Yuksel, O., An, L. L. , & Akkerman, R. (2020). Experimental and computational analysis of the polymerization overheating in thick glass/Elium® acrylic thermoplastic resin composites. Composites Part B: Engineering, 202, [108430]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108430

Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J. , Baran, I. , & Akkerman, R. (2020). Combatting rain erosion of offshore wind turbine blades by co-bonded thermoplastic-thermoset hybrid composites. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 942(1), [012024]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012024

Monfared Zanjani, J. S. , Baran, I. , & Akkerman, R. (2020). Characterization of interdiffusion mechanisms during co-bonding of unsaturated polyester resin to thermoplastics with different thermodynamic affinities. Polymer, 209, [122991]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122991

AlKhateab, B., Tabrizi, I. E. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Rahimi, M. N., Poudeh, L. H., Kefal, A., & Yildiz, M. (2020). Damage mechanisms in CFRP/HNT laminates under flexural and in-plane shear loadings using experimental and numerical methods. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 136, [105962]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2020.105962

Sarac, E. C., Poudeh, L. H. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Cebeci, F. Ç., Aydin, I., Menceloglu, Y., & Okan, B. S. (2020). New hybrid nano additives for thermoplastic compounding: CVD grown carbon fiber on graphene. AIP conference proceedings, 2205(1), [020067]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5142982

Zanjani, J. S. M., Poudeh, L. H., Ozunlu, B. G., Yagci, Y. E., Menceloglu, Y., & Saner Okan, B. (2020). Development of waste tire-derived graphene reinforced polypropylene nanocomposites with controlled polymer grade, crystallization and mechanical characteristics via melt-mixing. Polymer international, 69(9), 771-779. https://doi.org/10.1002/pi.6012

Afghah, F., Ullah, M. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., Akkus Sut, P., Sen, O., Emanet, M., Saner Okan, B., Culha, M., Menceloglu, Y., Yildiz, M., & Koc, B. (2020). 3D printing of silver-doped polycaprolactone-poly(propylene succinate) composite scaffolds for skin tissue engineering. Biomedical materials (Bristol, England), 15(3), [035015]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-605X/ab7417

Mandal, S. K. , Zanjani, J. S. M., & Yildiz, M. (2019). Damage detection in honeycomb sandwich panels by active thermography. Paper presented at 22nd International Conference on Composite Materials, ICCM 2019, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Emami Tabrizi, I. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., & Yildiz, M. (2019). Investigation of damage accumulation in glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites through acoustic emission method. Paper presented at 22nd International Conference on Composite Materials, ICCM 2019, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Tabrizi, I. E., Khan, R. M. A., Massarwa, E. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Ali, H. Q., Demir, E., & Yildiz, M. (2019). Determining tab material for tensile test of CFRP laminates with combined usage of digital image correlation and acoustic emission techniques. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, [105623]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2019.105623

Ali, H. Q., Tabrizi, I. E., Awais Khan, R. M. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., Yilmaz, C., Poudeh, L. H., & Yildiz, M. (2019). Experimental study on dynamic behavior of woven carbon fabric laminates using in-house piezoelectric sensors. Smart Materials and Structures, 28(10), [105004]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/ab34f3

Cakal Sarac, E., Haghighi Poudeh, L. , Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., Pehlivan, Z. S., Cebeci, F. Ç., Aydin, I., Menceloglu, Y., & Saner Okan, B. (2019). Nano-engineering of high-performance PA6.6 nanocomposites by the integration of CVD-grown carbon fiber on graphene as a bicomponent reinforcement by melt-compounding. Journal of applied polymer science, 136(47), [48347]. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.48347

Tabrizi, I. E., Kefal, A. , Zanjani, J. S. M., Akalin, C., & Yildiz, M. (2019). Experimental and numerical investigation on fracture behavior of glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites using acoustic emission method and refined zigzag theory. Composite structures, 223, [110971]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.110971

Oğuz, O. , Monfared Zanjani, J. S., Soytaş, S. H., & Menceloğlu, Y. Z. (2018). Specific Interactions and Self-Organization in Polymer/Functionalized Nanoparticle Systems. In Polymer Composites with Functionalized Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (pp. 85-117). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814064-2.00003-2

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SectorPlan, Interface optimization for metal -thermoplastic hybrids

Super fluent pipes – Pipes with ultralow fluid resistance

Integrated leading edge protection for offshore wind turbine blades at high speed

Additive manufacturing of thermoplastic composites

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Print2fly)

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