Microwave Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Zhen Li received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China in 2010, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2013, respectively, and his PhD degree in Materials from The University of Manchester, UK, in 2017. He is currently an associate professor with College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He is the director of the MIcrowave TEsting Laboratory (MITEL), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His research interests include advanced sensors and instrumentation, microwave testing, and electromagnetics. He has authored more than 50 papers with over 1,000 citations.

• Fibre-reinforced polymer composites.- Theory and components associated with microwave testing.- Electromagnetic properties of composites.- Reflection methods.- Transmission methods.- Resonant perturbation methods.- Planar-circuit methods.- Focusing methods.- Emerging methods.- Appendix A: MATLAB code for the extraction of S parameters from Keysight FieldFox analyser.- Appendix B: Two-port calibration using the Thru-Reflect-Line (TRL) standard.- Appendix C: MATLAB code for permittivity calculation.- Appendix D: MATLAB code for the interaction with CST software.