Advances in Braided Polymer Composites
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 12677
Special Issue Editors
Interests: experimental mechanics of composite materials; failure mechanism; morphologiacal analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Braided polymer composites are characterised by excellent structural stability and damage tolerance. They are versatile and highly conformable, ideal for high production rates. Finally, their fibre architecture can be tailored to specific applications. All this has attracted increasing interest from the automotive, marine, aeronautic and sports industries, and the use of braided polymer composites is foreseen to increase more in the following years.
Despite all this, several technological aspects related to the use of 2D and 3D braided technical textiles are not fully understood and need to be clarified.
This Special Issue aims to present cutting edge advances in the application of braided polymer composites, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Mechanical behaviour;
- ·Failure mechanisms;
- Ply-level hybridization;
- Failure criteria;
- Numerical simulations;
- Advanced applications;
- Manufacturing processes;
- Simulation of the manufacturing process;
- Ageing behaviour;
- Textile architectures.
As guest editors of the Special Issue titled “Advances in Braided Polymer Composites”, it is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute to this topic with your most original and recent results in this expanding field.
Dr. Tommaso Scalici
Dr. Giuseppe Catalanotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- braided composites
- mechanical behaviour
- failure mechanism
- failure criteria for braided composites
- manufacturing process
- ageing behaviour
- textile architecture
- fibre architecture
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