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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing, Properties, and Applications Open
Composites have been found to be the most promising and discerning material available in this century. Presently, composites reinforced with fibers of synthetic or natural materials are gaining more importance as demands for lightweight ma…
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Architected Cellular Materials Open
Additive manufacturing enables fabrication of materials with intricate cellular architecture, whereby progress in 3D printing techniques is increasing the possible configurations of voids and solids ad infinitum. Examples are microlattices…
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Aluminum Matrix Composites for Industrial Use: Advances and Trends Open
Composites material, plastics and ceramics have been the dominant emerging materials in many industries over the last decade. The motive behind the use of metal matrix composite components in the automotive, agriculture and mining sectors …
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Potential of Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Sandwich Structures: A Review on Its Mechanical Properties Open
The interest in using natural fiber reinforced composites is now at its highest. Numerous studies have been conducted due to their positive benefits related to environmental issues. Even though they have limitations for some load requireme…
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Materials for Automotive Lightweighting Open
Reducing the weight of automobiles is a major contributor to increased fuel economy. The baseline materials for vehicle construction, low-carbon steel and cast iron, are being replaced by materials with higher specific strength and stiffne…
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Critical review on advancements on the fiber-reinforced composites: Role of fiber/matrix modification on the performance of the fibrous composites Open
Nowadays, Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites (FRPCs) are extensively utilized due to their remarkable properties such as high stiffness, excellent strength to weight ratio, resistance to wear, corrosion etc. Earlier, the FRPCs are prepare…
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Dry sliding wear characteristics of aluminium metal matrix composites: a brief overview Open
Aluminium composites with reinforcements in the form of whiskers, particulates or continuous/discontinuous fibres are referred to as aluminium metal matrix composites (Al MMCs). These form of composites can be engineered to effectively pro…
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Carbon Fibres: Production, Properties and Potential Use Open
Carbon fiber is composed of carbon atoms bonded together to form a long chain. The fibers are extremely stiff, strong, and light, and are used in many processes to create excellent building materials. Carbon fiber material comes in a varie…
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The influence of laser parameters and scanning strategies on the mechanical properties of a stochastic porous material Open
Additive manufacturing enables architectured porous material design, but 3D-CAD modelling of these materials is prohibitively computationally expensive. This bottleneck can be removed using a line-based representation of porous materials i…
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Synthesis and Characterization of Mechanical Properties of AA8014 + Si3N4/ ZrO2 Hybrid Composites by Stir Casting Process Open
Lightweight materials are extremely needed for the manufacturing of industrial parts and are used in aerospace, automobile body shops, biomedical instruments, etc. Aluminium alloy is one of the light-weight materials, and it fulfills the i…
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Additive Manufactured Sandwich Composite/ABS Parts for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications Open
Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is one of most popular 3D printing techniques of thermoplastic polymers. Nonetheless, the poor mechanical strength of FDM parts restricts the use of this technology in functional parts of many applications …
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Compression Performance and Failure Analysis of 3D-Printed Carbon Fiber/PLA Composite TPMS Lattice Structures Open
Triply periodic minimum surface (TPMS)-based lattice structures have gained interest for their outstanding capacity to absorb energy, their high load-bearing capacity, and their high surface-to-volume ratio. This study considered three TPM…
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Ceramic Composite Materials Obtained by Electron-Beam Physical Vapor Deposition Used as Thermal Barriers in the Aerospace Industry Open
This paper is focused on the basic properties of ceramic composite materials used as thermal barrier coatings in the aerospace industry like SiC, ZrC, ZrB2 etc., and summarizes some principal properties for thermal barrier coatings. Althou…
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A review of the design, processes, and properties of Mg-based composites Open
Magnesium-based composites are promising materials that can achieve higher strength, modulus, stiffness, and wear resistance by using metals, ceramics, and nanoscale carbon-based materials as reinforcements. In the last few decades, high-p…
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A Review of the Impact Performance of Natural Fiber Thermoplastic Composites Open
Many academic studies continue to conclude that natural fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (NFTCs) have some potential to compete with mineral/inorganic fiber and filler reinforced composites in certain applications due to their dis…
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Maximizing the mechanical performance of Ti3AlC2-based MAX phases with aid of machine learning Open
Mechanical properties consisting of the bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, etc., are key factors in determining the practical applications of MAX phases. These mechanical properties are mainly dependent on the s…
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Optimized Carbon Fiber Composites in Wind Turbine Blade Design Open
The objective of this study is to assess the commercial viability to develop cost-competitive carbon fiber composites specifically suited for the unique loading experienced by wind turbine blades. The wind industry is a cost-driven market,…
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Aluminium metal matrix composites: A retrospective investigation Open
Aluminium matrix composites (AMMCs) are considered to be new generation potential materials for many engineering applications. Different kinds of reinforcement have been infused into the aluminium matrix in order to improve hardness, to…
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State-Of-The-Art of Sandwich Composite Structures: Manufacturing—to—High Performance Applications Open
This cutting-edge review highlights the fundamentals, design, and manufacturing strategies used for sandwich composites. Sandwich composite structures have the advantages of light weight, high strength, impact resistance, stability, and ot…
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Stiff, light, strong and ductile: nano-structured High Modulus Steel Open
Structural material development for lightweight applications aims at improving the key parameters strength, stiffness and ductility at low density, but these properties are typically mutually exclusive. Here we present how we overcome this…
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A Comprehensive Study of Ceramic Matrix Composites for Space Applications Open
Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) have grown in popularity as a material for a range of high as well as protection components, increasing the need to better understand the impacts of multiple machining methods. It is primarily composed of c…
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In-Plane Mechanical Behavior of a New Star-Re-Entrant Hierarchical Metamaterial Open
A novel hierarchical metamaterial with tunable negative Poisson’s ratio is designed by a re-entrant representative unit cell (RUC), which consists of star-shaped subordinate cells. The in-plane mechanical behaviors of star-re-entrant hiera…
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A review on high stiffness aluminum-based composites and bimetallics Open
The Young's modulus of aluminum-based materials is one of the most important mechanical properties in controlling structural performance. The improvement of the Young's modulus of castable aluminum-based materials is essential for improvin…
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Potential of Honeycomb-Filled Composite Structure in Composite Cross-Arm Component: A Review on Recent Progress and Its Mechanical Properties Open
Nowadays, pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer composite (PGFRPC) structures have been used widely for cross-arms in high transmission towers. These composite structures have replaced cross-arms of conventional materials like wood due …
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Machine learning assisted design of aluminum-lithium alloy with high specific modulus and specific strength Open
Advanced aluminum-lithium alloys are the key structural materials urgently needed for the development of light-weighted aircraft in the aerospace field. In this study, we employ a machine learning approach accompanied by domain knowledge t…
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Elastic Mechanical Properties of 45S5-Based Bioactive Glass–Ceramic Scaffolds Open
Porosity is recognized to play a key role in dictating the functional properties of bioactive scaffolds, especially the mechanical performance of the material. The mechanical suitability of brittle ceramic and glass scaffolds for bone tiss…
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Multi-objective optimization of composite plates using lamination parameters Open
Laminated composite plates are extensively used in various industries due to their high stiffness-to-weight ratio and directional properties that allow optimization of the stiffness characteristics for specific applications. In multi-objec…
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Ultrahigh strength and modulus of polyimide-carbon nanotube based carbon and graphitic fibers with superior electrical and thermal conductivities for advanced composite applications Open
Development of carbon fibers (CFs) with high strength and high modulus for structural applications in CF-reinforced polymer (CFRP) industry has been a challenge. Herein, we propose a method for manufacturing highly oriented polymer???carbo…
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Multi-property cellular material design approach based on the mechanical behaviour analysis of the reinforced lattice structure Open
Lattice structures have advantages such as energy absorption and heat transfer; however, they can often suffer failure because of stress distribution and lack of stiffness. A spherical-node-body-centred-cubic (SNBCC) structure was develope…
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Aerospace Industry and Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites Open
Researchers have turned to search for new materials that will meet all the aerospace industry requirements. When it is almost impossible to achieve this with a single material, composite materials have been studied, and there have been gre…