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Journal of Composites Science, Volume 5, Issue 6

June 2021 - 24 articles

Cover Story: While an airbrake has already been designed for Endeavour’s Darwin I rocket, there is still room for curiosity-driven improvement. Here, a Flasher origami airbrake is designed as a bilayer composite of segmented quasi-isotropic CFRP on a carbon fibre woven membrane. When stowed, the airbrake has a 3D structure that aligns flush with the fuselage of the rocket; however, when actuated to an open state, it becomes a flat 2D plate that increases drag. The Flasher origami airbrake is lower in weight and volume and has a 6-fold higher drag-to-torque ratio than the current Darwin I airbrake design. This paper elucidates the noteworthy potential for the application of origami composite technologies in rocket engineering. View this paper.
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Practical Rubber Pre-Treatment Approch for Concrete Use—An Experimental Study

  • Rajeev Roychand,
  • Rebecca J. Gravina,
  • Yan Zhuge,
  • Xing Ma,
  • Julie E. Mills and
  • Osama Youssf
J. Compos. Sci.2021, 5(6), 143;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs5060143

26 May 2021

There is a lot of ongoing active research all over the world looking for various applications of used tyre rubber, to increase its utilisation rate. One of the common research applications is to incorporate rubber into concrete as a partial replaceme...

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Physico-Mechanical Study of CMC/BFO/PoPD Nanocomposite Films Reinforced with Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCMCC) for Effective Photocatalytic Removal of Methyl Orange

  • Nurul Hidayu Nazri,
  • Yogesh Kumar,
  • Mohd Amirul Ramlan,
  • Mohammad Haafiz Mohammad Kassim,
  • Md. Sohrab Hossain and
  • Noor Haida Mohd Kaus
J. Compos. Sci.2021, 5(6), 142;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs5060142

25 May 2021

The present study was conducted to develop a nanocomposite film of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals isolated from microcrystalline cellulose (CNCMCC) in the presence of bismuth ferrite (BFO)/poly-o-phenylenediamine...

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Dielectric Properties of Wood-Polymer Composites: Effects of Frequency, Fiber Nature, Proportion, and Chemical Composition

  • Imen Elloumi,
  • Ahmed Koubaa,
  • Wassim Kharrat,
  • Chedly Bradai and
  • Ahmed Elloumi
J. Compos. Sci.2021, 5(6), 141;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs5060141

24 May 2021

The characterization of the dielectric properties of wood–polymer composites (WPCs) is essential to understand their interaction with electromagnetic fields and evaluate their potential use for new applications. Thus, dielectric spectroscopy monitore...

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Controlled Magnetic Isolation and Decoupling of Perpendicular FePt Films by Capping Ultrathin Cu(002) Nano-Islands

  • Da-Hua Wei,
  • Ji-Hong Chang,
  • Chi-Chun Hsu,
  • Cheng-Jie Yang,
  • Yuan-Chang Liang,
  • Chung-Li Dong and
  • Yeong-Der Yao
J. Compos. Sci.2021, 5(6), 140;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs5060140

21 May 2021

This study investigated the ultrathin Cu(002) capping nano-island effects on the magnetic characterizations and microstructure of epitaxial FePt(001) films directly fabricated on MgO(001) substrates at the relatively low temperature of 300 °C via ele...

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