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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,497 Views
14 Pages

4 July 2021

The variation in the viscous damping coefficient with the carbon fiber angle can be evaluated using the partial derivatives of the viscous damping coefficient with respect to the resonance frequency and modal damping ratio. However, the direct deriva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,307 Views
11 Pages

22 March 2021

Previous studies have demonstrated the sensitivity of the dynamic behavior of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) material over the carbon fiber direction by performing uniaxial excitation tests on a simple specimen. However, the variations in mod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,220 Views
33 Pages

Development of Laser Processing Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic

  • Zhonghe Wang,
  • Yao Ma,
  • Boshi Yuan,
  • Chunting Wu,
  • Changqing Li and
  • Shuwei Sun

31 March 2023

Due to its exceptional advantages, such as high specific strength, high specific modulus, and good fatigue resistance, carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is frequently utilized in aerospace, aviation, automotive, rail transportation, and other ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,395 Views
14 Pages

16 December 2021

The additive manufacturing (AM) of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites continue to grow due to the attractive strength-to-weight and modulus-to-weight ratios afforded by the composites combined with the ease of processibility achievable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,562 Views
13 Pages

26 June 2020

Excellent mechanical properties of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic material (CFRP) demonstrates many possibilities in industries using lightweight materials, but unlike isotropic materials, such as iron, aluminum, and magnesium, they show direction-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,307 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2020

The dynamic properties of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) can be efficiently estimated through a modal damping coefficient and a resonance frequency, and the modal parameters can be calculated using a frequency response function (FRF). The mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,979 Views
18 Pages

Optimization of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Curing Parameters for Aerospace Application

  • Fareed Ahmad,
  • Mohammed Al Awadh,
  • Muhammad Abas,
  • Sahar Noor and
  • Asad Hameed

24 April 2022

The use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is increasing in engineering applications such as aerospace, automobiles, defense, and construction. Excellent strength-to-weight ratio, high impact toughness, and corrosion resistance make CFRP highl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,731 Views
15 Pages

16 June 2024

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is frequently utilized as a bolted joint material in aircraft applications because of its high specific strength and specific modulus. Therefore, the performance of CFRP under −50° is significant. Here...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,903 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2020

This study addressed the topology optimization of a carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminated battery-hanging structure of an electric vehicle. To accommodate parameterization for thickness and orientation of CFRP materials, the discrete mater...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,626 Views
22 Pages

To investigate the effects of concrete canvas (CC) and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) reinforcement on the mechanical properties of corroded reinforced concrete columns (compressive strength, flexure strength, strength of extension, and so on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,765 Views
17 Pages

Preheated (Heat-Assisted) Clinching Process for Al/CFRP Cross-Tension Specimens

  • Pai-Chen Lin,
  • Jun-Chang Fang,
  • Jia-Wei Lin,
  • Xuan Van Tran and
  • Yern-Chee Ching

19 September 2020

Effects of processing parameters on preheated (heat-assisted) clinching process to join aluminum alloy 5052-H32 (AA5052) and thermoplastic carbon-fiber-reinforced-plastic (TP-CFRP) sheets for cross-tension (CT) specimens were first studied. Preheatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,098 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2020

The damage induced by lightning strikes in carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminates with fasteners is a complex multiphysics coupling process. To clarify the effects of different lightning current components on the induced damage, components...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,527 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2019

In this paper, a strengthening method for the damaged high-temperature steel pipeline using inorganic insulation material which was confined by carbon fiber reinforcement plastic (CFRP) composite materials was proposed. Two inorganic insulation mater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,117 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2021

Drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) is a challenging task in aviation and aerospace field. Damages, which can reduce the strength of the structure, often occur during secondary machining operations due to the applied cutting force an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,036 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2024

Honeycomb structures made of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) are increasingly used in the aerospace field due to their excellent energy absorption capability. Attention has been paid to CFRP structures in order to accurately simulate their pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,798 Views
12 Pages

29 March 2023

When carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) and steel are joined using blind riveting and bolting, fastener inclination occurs due to the clearance between the fastener and hole. To this end, this study investigated the unavoidable occurrence of clea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,172 Views
19 Pages

2 February 2021

The objective of this study is to investigate the tribological behavior of graphene nanoplatelets (xGnPs) as nano-solid lubricants, and to evaluate their applicability to the micro-drilling of multi-directional carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (MD-CFR...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
14,593 Views
25 Pages

23 August 2023

The extensive use of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) in aerospace, civil engineering, and other fields has resulted in a significant amount of waste, leading to serious environmental issues. Finding appropriate methods for recycling CFRP wast...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,732 Views
12 Pages

13 October 2016

Hole quality plays a crucial role in the production of close-tolerance holes utilized in aircraft assembly. Through drilling experiments of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composites (CFRP), this study investigates the impact of varying drilling feed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,287 Views
13 Pages

Due to their excellent mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and ease of processing, carbon fiber and carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics are finding wide application in diverse fields, including aerospace, industry, and automobiles. This research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,533 Views
18 Pages

10 August 2022

Metal fiber hybrids (MFH) exhibit outstanding mechanical properties. They combine the advantages of ductile metallic materials with the well-known advantages of classical glass or carbon fibers in polymer matrices. Previous research has shown that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,168 Views
17 Pages

12 January 2025

Carbon fiber reinforced plastics inevitably develop defects such as delamination, inclusions, and impacts during manufacturing and usage, which can adversely affect their performance. Ultrasonic phased array inspection is the most effective method fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,381 Views
31 Pages

12 May 2021

Dimensional reduction methods have significantly improved the simplification of Pulsed Thermography (PT) data while improving the accuracy of the results. Such approaches reduce the quantity of data to analyze and improve the contrast of the main def...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,996 Views
12 Pages

Surface Quality of Staggered PCD End Mill in Milling of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics

  • Guangjun Liu,
  • Hongyuan Chen,
  • Zhen Huang,
  • Fei Gao and
  • Tao Chen

17 February 2017

Machined surface quality determines the reliability, wear resistance and service life of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) workpieces. In this work, the formation mechanism of the surface topography and the machining defects of CFRPs are propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,010 Views
9 Pages

6 December 2017

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is widely used for structural members of transportation vehicles such as automobile, aircraft, or spacecraft, utilizing its excellent specific strength and specific rigidity in contrast with the metal. Short car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,564 Views
12 Pages

28 November 2024

CFRP exhibits a low specific gravity, good rigidity, and high strength and is widely used in the automobile, aerospace, and biomedical fields. Against this background, the demand for composite components prepared using CFRP and polymers has increased...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,256 Views
16 Pages

Fatigue Damage Evaluation of Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics Based on Thermoelastic Temperature Change and Second Harmonic Components of Thermal Signal

  • Daiki Shiozawa,
  • Takahide Sakagami,
  • Yu Nakamura,
  • Takato Tamashiro,
  • Shinichi Nonaka,
  • Kenichi Hamada and
  • Tomoaki Shinchi

30 August 2021

Short fiber reinforced plastics (SFRPs) have excellent moldability and productivity compared to continuous fiber composites. In this study, thermoelastic stress analysis (TSA) was applied to detect delamination defects in short carbon fiber reinforce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,953 Views
17 Pages

5 March 2024

Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) of continuous carbon fiber-reinforced plastics with fused deposition modeling is a burgeoning manufacturing method because of its potential as a powerful approach to produce lightweight, high strength and compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,081 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2020

A liquid nitrogen cooling system was developed to ensure the successful ultrasonic testing of composite materials to characterize the very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF) of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP). The fatigue failure of CFRP occurs even i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,434 Views
17 Pages

On the Ablation Behavior of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastics during Laser Surface Treatment Using Pulsed Lasers

  • Jana Gebauer,
  • Maximilian Burkhardt,
  • Volker Franke and
  • Andrés Fabián Lasagni

12 December 2020

This contribution discusses the ablation phenomena observed during laser treatment of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) with pulsed lasers observed employing laser sources with wavelengths of 355 nm, 1064 nm and 10.6 µm and pulse duratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,139 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2019

In high-speed precision machining, thermal deformation caused by temperature rise affects the accuracy stability of the machine tool to a significant extent. In order to reduce the thermal deformation of ball screws and improve the accuracy, a new ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,395 Views
22 Pages

9 May 2022

In this study, the effects of process parameters (feed rate, spindle speed, and ultrasonic power level) on the cutting force and delamination in the ultrasonic vibration-assisted drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have been investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,859 Views
16 Pages

This study explores a technique for enhancing the punching strength of reinforced concrete (RC) flat slabs, namely carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP). Four large-scale RC flat slabs were fabricated, to assess the efficacy of this strengthening me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,542 Views
14 Pages

Quick Preparation of Moisture-Saturated Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastics and Their Accelerated Ageing Tests Using Heat and Moisture

  • Masao Kunioka,
  • Tomio Shimada,
  • Hideaki Hagihara,
  • Masahiro Funabashi,
  • Hiroyuki Suda and
  • Hideki Horizono

22 June 2016

A quick method involving the control of heat and water vapor pressure for preparing moisture-saturated carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP, 8 unidirectional prepreg layers, 1.5 mm thickness, epoxy resin) has been developed. The moisture-saturated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,581 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2023

Abrasive suspension jet (ASJ), an accurate cold-cutting technology, can address traditional processing issues relating to carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) like tool wear, interlayer delamination, large heat-affected zone, and low surface roug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
465 Views
24 Pages

8 October 2025

This work provides a comparison of two commercial carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) materials: HexPly® M18 1/G939 and RTM6/G939. Differences due to the additional thermoplastic in one CFRP are investigated for the two otherwise nearly identi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,324 Views
28 Pages

Straw Tar Epoxy Resin for Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic: A Review

  • Zhanpeng Jiang,
  • Jingyi He,
  • Huijie Li,
  • Yiming Liu,
  • Jiuyin Pang,
  • Chuanpeng Li and
  • Guiquan Jiang

28 August 2024

The massive consumption of fossil fuels has led to the serious accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere and global warming. Bioconversion technologies that utilize biomass resources to produce chemical products are becoming widely accepte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,955 Views
15 Pages

Development of a Staggered PCD End Mill for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic

  • Guangjun Liu,
  • Xin Qian,
  • Hongyuan Chen,
  • Fei Gao and
  • Tao Chen

3 March 2017

This work presents a PCD (polycrystalline diamond) end mill with a new staggered structure for the milling of CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic). The magnitude and direction of cutting force is decreased and changed by side-edge re-configuration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,097 Views
10 Pages

Joining Strength of Self-Piercing Riveted Vibration-Damping Steel and Dissimilar Materials

  • Keong Hwan Cho,
  • Jin Hyeok Joo,
  • Min Gyu Kim,
  • Dong Hyuck Kam and
  • Jedo Kim

A vibration-damping steel panel is used for lightweight vehicles to block any noise subjected to the passenger cabin replacing heavy fiber-based insulators. Conventional weld joining methods often encounter problems due to the presence of viscoelasti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,622 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2019

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) has been used in many industries owing to its excellent specific-strength characteristics; however, the control of its mechanical properties is difficult owing to the directivity nature of carbon fiber as well a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
705 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2025

The recycling of waste materials that are usually expensive to dispose of, such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) dust and ferrous dust or sludge, can open up interesting economic prospects and free up landfill space. The agglomeration proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,734 Views
10 Pages

An Investigation of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Ablation by Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Further Material Cutting

  • Paulius Šlevas,
  • Justinas Minkevičius,
  • Orestas Ulčinas,
  • Sergej Orlov,
  • Egidijus Vanagas,
  • Anna Bilousova,
  • Denys Baklan and
  • Oleksiy Myronyuk

18 January 2025

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is a popular material possessing great properties, such as strength, lightness, and resistance to corrosion and the environment. Important steps in the production of various parts made of CFRP are surface struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,921 Views
14 Pages

Enhanced Surface Properties of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic by Epoxy Modified Primer with Plasma for Automotive Applications

  • Kyeng-Bo Sim,
  • Dooyoung Baek,
  • Jae-Ho Shin,
  • Gyu-Seong Shim,
  • Seong-Wook Jang,
  • Hyun-Joong Kim,
  • Jong-Won Hwang and
  • Jeong U. Roh

3 March 2020

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is currently used as a lightweight material in various parts of automobiles. However, fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) material may be damaged at the time of joining via mechanical bonding; therefore, adhesion is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,414 Views
14 Pages

Fabrication of Fiber Reinforced Plastics by Ultrasonic Welding

  • Andreas Gomer,
  • Wei Zou,
  • Niels Grigat,
  • Johannes Sackmann and
  • Werner Karl Schomburg

17 September 2018

Ultrasonic fabrication of fiber reinforced plastics made from thermoplastic polymer films and carbon or glass fibers enables cycle times of a few seconds and requires investment costs of only some 10,000 €. Besides this, the raw materials can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,902 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2020

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic is an important building material; however, its application is limited because of its brittleness, leading to vulnerability under shock. Thus, the strength performance of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics needs to be im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,783 Views
24 Pages

Design of Center Pillar with Composite Reinforcements Using Hybrid Molding Method

  • Ji-Heon Kang,
  • Jae-Wook Lee,
  • Jae-Hong Kim,
  • Tae-Min Ahn and
  • Dae-Cheol Ko

20 April 2021

Recently, with the increase in awareness about a clean environment worldwide, fuel efficiency standards are being strengthened in accordance with exhaust gas regulations. In the automotive industry, various studies are ongoing on vehicle body weight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,716 Views
17 Pages

Development of Electrodeposited Wire Mesh Grinding Wheel for Cutoff and Grooving Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic

  • Mamoru Nomura,
  • Shuji Kurashige,
  • Yukio Ito,
  • Yoshiya Fukuhara and
  • Hiroyuki Sasahara

26 July 2023

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is used in various industries because of its high specific strength, but it is well known as a difficult material to cut. In this study, we developed a disc-shaped electrodeposited diamond wire mesh grinding whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,989 Views
14 Pages

Optimizing Heat Treatment Conditions for Measuring CFRP and GFRP Resin Impregnation

  • Ji Hyun Kim,
  • Bhum Keun Song,
  • Kyoung Jae Min,
  • Jung Chul Choi and
  • Hwa Seong Eun

17 November 2022

As the use of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) and glass-fiber-reinforced plastic is frequent in the field of construction, a method for measuring FRP resin content is needed. Herein, thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) was employed to optimize...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,046 Views
4 Pages

19 September 2023

The effects of drilling process parameters, such as drill diameter and feed rate, on the delamination of holes has been examined while drilling Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastics and aluminum (CFRP/Al2219-T6). The stack method was employed while drilli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,127 Views
14 Pages

4 July 2023

The milling of polymer composites is a process that ensures dimensional and shape accuracy and appropriate surface quality. The shaping of thin-walled elements is a challenge owing to their deformation. This article presents the results of milling po...

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