Detection of Damage in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites

Dear Colleagues,

As carbon-fiber-reinforced composites have established themselves in the fields of aeronautics and aviation, both military and commercial, and other sectors such biomedical applications, enhancing early and effective damage detection ability as well as damage assessment in such materials is of paramount importance. The explosion of nanotechnology has provided materials with advanced capabilities to provide information on damage evolution in carbon-fiber-reinforced composites. Therefore, many interesting methods have been proposed based on effective damage detection for these materials in the widely available literature, for example, wavelet transformation analysis under vibration excitation as well as lamb wave detection. Fiber optics sensors or piezoelectric sensors as well as methodologies based on their electrical resistance changes have also been proposed. Acoustic emission techniques, sonic infrared detection, non-linear acoustics, and micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers have been investigated as damage sensors. Coupled techniques, such as electromechanical models, are also studied. Impedance spectroscopy and interferometric techniques have been reported by several scientists to be effective in damage detection.

Therefore, we have the pleasure of dedicating a Special Issue of the Applied Sciences to the detection of damage in carbon-fiber-reinforced composites, a field in which you and your scientific team have significant expertise over the past years.

We would be very interested in publishing a paper from you contributing to this area, so please consider this a cordial invitation to you and your team for this cause.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can provide you any assistance.

Truly yours,

Prof. Dionysis E. Mouzakis
Guest Editor

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• composites
• carbon fiber
• nanocomposites
• nanofiber
• damage mechanics
• damage detection
• damage evaluation
• sensors
• passive detection
• active detection