2026 October - 14 articles
Natural-fiber-reinforced polymer composites have received increasing attention in additive manufacturing (AM), particularly in material extrusion and vat photopolymerization. Natural fibers are attractive for these applications because they are biode...
Cellulose fibers are abundant, renewable biopolymers with significant potential to replace petroleum-based materials, yet their high flammability limits their use in fire-sensitive applications such as protective packaging, electrical insulation, and...
The growing global demand for particleboards has generated large quantities of waste in recent years. This waste mainly arises from manufacturing processes, furniture industry offcuts, and end-of-life disposal. In response to waste management challen...
Seams in upholstery fabrics are subjected to repeated mechanical loading during use, which may lead to progressive seam opening. This study evaluated a double-pass stitching variant in which the second pass follows the same nominal seam line as the f...
This study presents a comprehensive multiphysics characterization of unstabilized raw earth and earth–wheat straw composites to address the scarcity of data regarding their acoustic performance. Four soils from the Champagne-Ardenne region were...
Conventional low-loss Hollow-Core Anti-Resonant Fibers (ARFs) deliver a near-Gaussian fundamental mode profile that is suboptimal for applications favoring uniform irradiance. We show here that deliberately breaking the cladding symmetry can allow fo...
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites are attractive for load-bearing aeronautical structures, but their use near fire zones is limited by matrix pyrolysis and the loss of through-thickness integrity. Validating thermo-structural models requires temper...
Plant fiber-reinforced fiber–cement composites are promising sustainable products, but their durability under alkaline and moisture-variable conditions remains a key limitation. This systematic review critically examines accelerated aging metho...
Geotextiles are often used in large scale civil engineering projects, such as dams and embankments. Failure of these structures can lead to significant economic losses as well as mortal danger. Still, current monitoring solutions of such structures o...
Polymeric fiber–hydrogel hybrids combine the structural organization and mechanical reinforcement of fibrous scaffolds with the high water content, permeability, and biological compatibility of hydrogels. However, the relationships between hybr...
The objective of this work is to develop and analyze a method based on the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN), which would be capable of inferring the most relevant physical parameters of an optical fiber—specifically, the second-order...
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs) are commonly derived from petroleum-derived feedstocks and are highly flammable, necessitating flame-retardant chemicals that adversely affect both polymer properties and the environment. In this work, the...
Polymer concretes with fiber reinforcement have many desirable properties when compared to cementitious concretes, including rapid development of mechanical properties, excellent bond to concrete and other substrates, high tensile strength, and resis...
This study reanalyzes an archived experimental program on textured polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber strips used as internal tensile reinforcement in glued-laminated timber (glulam) beams. The pull-out stage comprised one specimen...
