Behavior and Design of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Components and Structures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2025) | Viewed by 1031
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Interests: polymer composites; nanocomposites; probabilistic mechanics and design; dynamic response; application of AI in composites
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Dear Colleagues,
Mechanical components and structures made of thermoset and thermoplastic polymer materials with various types of fiber reinforcements are being increasingly employed in aerospace, mechanical, transportation, green energy, and infrastructure engineering. Fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, and other stiffer and stronger materials in both discontinuous and continuous forms are now being utilized as reinforcements at the nano and micro level to achieve superior mechanical properties, durability, and high performance. The present Special Issue focuses on recent developments in (a) the characterization of mechanical and material behaviour at the nano, micro, meso, and macro levels of composite materials using experimental, analytical, and computational methods and techniques, and (b) design approaches using deterministic and probabilistic methodologies for components and structures comprising such materials. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of research focusing on tensile, compressive, shear, fracture, fatigue, creep, impact, and damping properties, as well as the durability and degradation of such materials, components and structures due to temperature and moisture. This also includes studies on nanocomposites involving the atomistic, molecular, and computational modeling of continuum mechanics, experimental investigations, and hybrid approaches. The application of these materials in machine tools, machine elements, mechanical structures, aerospace structures, automobile components, naval vessels, helicopter blades and rotors, and infrastructure will be of interest to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Rajamohan Ganesan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer materials
- thermosets
- thermoplastics
- carbon fiber
- mechanical behavior
- fracture
- fatigue
- creep
- nanocomposites
- design
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