Dr Paul Harper

Latest publications

• Kitson, J, Williamson, S, Harper, P, McMahon, C, Rosenberg, G, Tierney, M, Bell, K & Gautam, B, 2018, ‘Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities’. Energy, vol 160., pp. 142-153
• Dawson, M, Davies, P, Harper, P & Wilkinson, S, 2018, ‘Composite Materials in Tidal Energy Blades’. in: Peter Davies, Yapa D S Rajapakse (eds) Durability of Composites in a Marine Environment 2. Springer Verlag, pp. 173-194
• Kitson, J, Williamson, S, Harper, P, McMahon, C, Rosenberg, G, Tierney, M & Bell, K, 2017, ‘A photovoltaic panel modelling method for flexible implementation in Matlab/Simulink using datasheet quantities’. in: 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2017). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 946-951
• Kitson, J, Williamson, S, Harper, P, McMahon, C, Rosenberg, G, Tierney, M, Bell, K & Gautam, B, 2017, ‘Modelling of an Expandable, Reconfigurable, Renewable DC Microgrid for Off-Grid Communities’.
• Harper, PW & Hallett, SR, 2015, ‘Advanced numerical modelling techniques for the structural design of composite tidal turbine blades’. Ocean Engineering, vol 96., pp. 272-283
• Nixon-Pearson, OJ, Hallett, SR, Harper, PW & Kawashita, LF, 2013, ‘Damage development in open-hole composite specimens in fatigue. Part 2: Numerical modelling’. Composite Structures, vol 106., pp. 890-898
• Harper, PW, Sun, L & Hallett, SR, 2012, ‘A study on the influence of cohesive zone interface element strength parameters on mixed mode behaviour’. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, vol 43., pp. 722-734
• Harper, P & Hallett, S, 2012, ‘A Numerical Fatigue Model for Application to Tidal Turbines’. in: Fatigue of Composite Materials: Vol. 3 of American Society of Composites Series. Lancaster, PA ,USA: DEStech Publications Inc
• Hallett, S, OJ, N-P, Harper, P, F, KL, J, WP & J, R, 2011, ‘Finite element simulation of open hole tension fatigue tests’. in: International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials (CFRAC 2011), Barcelona.
• Harper, P & Hallett, S, 2010, ‘A fatigue degradation law for cohesive interface elements - Development and application to composite materials’. International Journal of Fatigue, vol 32., pp. 1774-1787