Applications, Properties and Manufacturing of Marine Composites
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2023) | Viewed by 9415
Special Issue Editors
Interests: composites manufacturing; cold spray process; friction stir welding; natural fiber composites; hybrid composites; mechanichal characterization; impact behaviour of composites; finite element simulations
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Interests: manufacturing processes of composites; novel composite structures; 3D-printing of polymer matrix composites; hybridization of composites; metallization of composite materials; sandwich structures; design and characterization; finite element analysis of processes and products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRPs) composites have been employed in marine applications for decades, starting from the manufacturing of ships and vessels. To date, composites are employed in all areas of the marine sector and for a variety of components and structures, namely hulls, bearings, propellers, hatch covers, railings, vessels of all types, valves, and other subsea structures. Indeed, the replacement of metals and wood, with FRPs in components and structure offers known advantages, e.g., enhanced corrosion resistance, lightweight, no or reduced maintenance, durability, and design flexibility.
The growing of the market for composites brings out several challenges concerning the development of innovative FRPs, establishing of new design guidelines, devising of efficient manufacturing, development of computational analysis tools. Last but not least, it is needed to highlight that nowadays it is impossible to not consider the environmental aspects related to both the manufacturing and the end-of-life (EoL) of FRPs products. This means that the new global challenges are aiming at using of more eco-friendly composite materials, such as natural fiber composites (NFCs), and at studying of recycling process for EoL components.
For these reasons, the Special Issue aims to wrap the recent developments in the area of fiber-reinforced composites in marine applications, including, but not limited, to the following topics:
- Fiber-reinforced composites manufacturing;
- Marine composite sandwich structures;
- Composites in oil and gas applications;
- Underwater constructions;
- Underwater repairing;
- Lightest marine structures;
- Durability of composites in marine environment;
- Life cycle assessment and disposal of marine composite;
- Natural fiber-reinforced composites;
- Recycling of EoL composite components.
As guest editors, it is our pleasure to invite you to share your valuable contribution to the Special Issue, which will present new results on this expanding topic.
Dr. Luca Boccarusso
Dr. Antonio Viscusi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- advanced composite materials
- hybrid composite materials
- natural fiber composites
- GFRP, CFRP and AFRP manufacturing
- lightest marine structures
- marine renewable energy
- underwater construction
- repairing
- EoL composites
- recycling
