Processing, Application and Development of Superfiber Materials

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the most popular future lightweight materials, superfiber composites are used in many fields, such as automobile, aerospace, aircraft, ships, civil engineering, sports equipment, and so on, based on their high specific tensile strength and high elasticity modulus, good geometrical stability, as well as electrochemical and corrosion resistance. However, in order to meet the applications in the above fields, fiber composites need to go through a variety of mechanical machining, such as drilling, shearing, and edge trimming. The above repeated processing techniques coupled with the inhomogeneous and anisotropic characteristics of the fiber material itself lead to processing difficultly, burrs, tool wear, uncut fibers, delamination, fiber pull-outs, cracks, and other defects .

Therefore, optimizing machining methods and conditions is very important for the development and application of superfiber materials. The Special Issue aims to study the machining performance characteristics during the processing of superfiber composites, including wear mechanism, machinability, delamination factor, cutting parameters, machining-induced damage, and so on. Thus, we sincerely welcome colleagues at home and abroad to submit your contributions to this Special Issue.

A wide variety of topics are covered by this Special Issue, including but not limited to the following:

• Burrs;
• Drilling;
• Thrust forces;
• Delamination;
• Critical feed rate;
• Wear mechanism;
• Superfiber materials;
• Composite laminates;
• Multi-response optimization;
• Application and development of superfiber materials.

Prof. Dr. Jun Cong Ge
Prof. Dr. Jun Hee Song
Dr. Sam Ki Yoon
Guest Editors

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• wear mechanism
• drilling
• burrs
• delamination
• thrust forces
• tensile strength
• superfiber materials
• fiber-reinforced polymer