Composite Materials
Manufacturing, Properties and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 18, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: It Meng Low, Yu Dong
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 5 1 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 8 7 9 - 3
Composite materials have been well developed to meet the challenges of high-performing material properties targeting engineering and structural applications. The ability of co… Read more
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Request a sales quoteComposite materials have been well developed to meet the challenges of high-performing material properties targeting engineering and structural applications. The ability of composite materials to absorb stresses and dissipate strain energy is vastly superior to that of other materials such as polymers and ceramics, and thus they offer engineers many mechanical, thermal, chemical and damage-tolerance advantages with limited drawbacks such as brittleness.
Composite Materials: Manufacturing, Properties and Applications presents a comprehensive review of current status and future directions, latest technologies and innovative work, challenges and opportunities for composite materials. The chapters present latest advances and comprehensive coverage of material types, design, fabrication, modelling, properties and applications from conventional composite materials to advanced composites such as nanocomposites, self-healing and smart composites. The book targets researchers in the field of advanced composite materials and ceramics, students of materials science and engineering at the postgraduate level, as well as material engineers and scientists working in industrial R& D sectors for composite material manufacturing.
- Comprehensive coverage of material types, design, fabrication, modelling, properties and applications from conventional composite materials to advanced composites such as nanocomposites, self-healing and smart composites
- Features latest advances in terms of mechanical properties and other material parameters which are essential for designers and engineers in the composite and composite reinforcement manufacturing industry, as well as all those with an academic research interest in the subject
- Offers a good platform for end users to refer to the latest technologies and topics fitting into specific applications and specific methods to tackle manufacturing or material processing issues in relation to different types of composite materials
Academic and industrial researchers working on composite materials, polymer science and materials engineering.Postgraduate students in materials science and engineering
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section I: Manufacturing
- Chapter 1: Futuristic synthesis strategies for aluminum-based metal-matrix composites
- Abstract
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Classifications of composite materials
- 1.3: Description of the process and working principle
- 1.4: Mechanical properties and industrial scalability of Al-MMCs
- 1.5: Futuristic development and applications
- 1.6: Summary and future prospects
- Chapter 2: Geopolymer composites modified with nanomaterials
- Abstract
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Nano-silica (NS)
- 2.3: Nano-clay
- 2.4: Nano-alumina
- 2.5: Carbon nanotubes
- 2.6: Nano-titanium dioxide (Nano-TiO2)
- Chapter 3: Advanced hybrid fiber-reinforced composites for high material performance
- Abstract
- 3.1: Introduction
- 3.2: Hybridization of carbon fiber and carbon nanotubes
- 3.3: Performance of CF-CNT hybrid
- 3.4: Performance of CF-CNT hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer composites
- 3.5: Conclusion and future work
- Chapter 4: 3D printing composite materials: A comprehensive review
- Abstract
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: 3D printing techniques
- 4.3: 3D printing composite materials
- 4.4: Applications
- 4.5: Summary and future perspectives
- Chapter 5: Fiber composites of inorganic polymers (geopolymers) reinforced with natural fibers
- Abstract
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Aluminosilicate geopolymers
- 5.3: Geopolymers reinforced with natural fibers
- 5.4: Concluding remarks
- Section II: Properties
- Chapter 6: Interphase and interfacial properties of composite materials
- Abstract
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: Fundamental concepts of composites
- 6.3: Interfacial properties
- 6.4: Future perspectives
- 6.5: Conclusions
- Chapter 7: Durability and life prediction of fiber-reinforced polymer composites
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Durability of FRP composites
- 7.3: Life prediction of FRP composites
- 7.4: Summary
- Chapter 8: Composites for structural strengthening, repair, rehabilitation, and retrofit
- Abstract
- 8.1: Introduction
- 8.2: Composite materials
- 8.3: Further consideration aspects for using composite as strengthening materials
- 8.4: Conclusions and outlook
- Chapter 9: Vinyl-ester composites reinforced with natural fibers and nanofillers
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 9.1: Introduction
- 9.2: Experimental procedure
- 9.3: Results and discussion
- 9.4: Conclusions
- Chapter 10: Fracture mechanics of composites: Reinforcement of short carbon and glass fibers
- Abstract
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.2: Experiment procedure
- 10.3: Results and discussion
- 10.4: Conclusions
- Chapter 11: Mechanical properties of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber-reinforced fly ash geopolymer and fly ash-slag-blended geopolymer composites
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 11.1: Introduction
- 11.2: State of the art
- 11.3: Experimental program
- 11.4: Results and discussion
- 11.5: Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Thermal damage in carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composites: A critical review
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 12.1: Introduction
- 12.2: Industry environment and challenges
- 12.3: Manufacture of carbon fibers from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers
- 12.4: CFRPs used for aircraft structures
- 12.5: Thermal effects on the fiber and matrix components in CFRP
- 12.6: Temperature distribution in aircraft
- 12.7: How microscopic hardness influences macroscopic mechanical properties
- 12.8: Heat treatment tests on CFRP
- 12.9: Summary
- Chapter 13: Self-healing and self-sensing smart polymer composites
- Abstract
- 13.1: Introduction to smart polymer composites
- 13.2: Self-sensing polymers composites
- 13.3: Self-healing polymers composites
- 13.4: Strategies and prospects for combining self-sensing and self-healing features
- 13.5: Summary
- Chapter 14: Lightning strike damage on carbon fiber-reinforced composites: Prediction and protection
- Abstract
- 14.1: Introduction
- 14.2: Lightning strike mechanism
- 14.3: Modeling of lightning strike damage to CFRCs
- 14.4: LSP systems
- 14.5: Conclusions
- Chapter 15: Fire behavior and flame-retardant properties of application-oriented fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 15.1: Introduction
- 15.2: Aviation: How to prevent fire in the sky
- 15.3: Railway: Fire-proof CFRPs on the right track
- 15.4: Automotive: A growing market for flame retardants?
- 15.5: Civil engineering: How to beat metal and ceramics
- 15.6: Electronic industry: Halogen-free systems slowly on the way
- 15.7: Concluding remarks
- Section III: Applications
- Chapter 16: Advances in multistable composite structures and their applications
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 16.1: Morphing structures
- 16.2: Bioinspired structure
- 16.3: Soft robotic grippers
- 16.4: Summary and future trends
- Chapter 17: Intelligent composite materials for use as sensors and actuators
- Abstract
- 17.1: Introduction
- 17.2: Design and fabrication of intelligent materials
- 17.3: SMAs used in sensing and actuating composites
- 17.4: Intelligent piezoelectric materials
- 17.5: Optical fibers
- 17.6: Carbon in electrochemical sensors
- 17.7: Magnetostrictive materials
- 17.8: Intelligent polymers
- 17.9: Summary
- Chapter 18: High-temperature superlubricity behaviors of γ-Fe2O3@SiO2 nanocomposite coatings
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 18.1: Introduction
- 18.2: Experimental details
- 18.3: Results and discussion
- 18.4: Conclusions
- Chapter 19: Polymeric composites for X-ray shielding applications
- Abstract
- 19.1: Introduction
- 19.2: Materials and methodology
- 19.3: Results and discussion
- 19.4: Summary
- 19.5: Concluding remarks
- Chapter 20: Synthesis of nuclear-grade nano-sized boron carbide powders and its application in LDPE matrix composites for neutron shielding
- Abstract
- 20.1: Introduction
- 20.2: Experimental procedure
- 20.3: Results and discussion
- 20.4: Conclusions
- Chapter 21: Shape memory polymer composites and their smart structural applications
- Abstract
- 21.1: Introduction
- 21.2: Shape memory effect
- 21.3: Stimuli-responsive SMPCs
- 21.4: Reinforced SMPCs
- 21.5: Durability of SMPCs
- 21.6: Modeling of SMPCs
- 21.7: Manufacturing of SMPCs
- 21.8: Smart structural applications of SMPCs
- 21.9: Summary
- Chapter 22: Analysis of architecture and performance of three-dimensional braided composites
- Abstract
- 22.1: Introduction
- 22.2: Processing of four-step braiding preform
- 22.3: Mechanical properties and numerical analysis of 3D braided composites
- 22.4: Summary and future trends
- Chapter 23: Biomass-derived porous carbon nanostructures for supercapacitor applications
- Abstract
- 23.1: Introduction
- 23.2: Biomass as a precursor for activated carbon
- 23.3: Technologies and structures of supercapacitors
- 23.4: Porous carbon material-based supercapacitor
- 23.5: Conclusions and perspectives
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 18, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 688
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128205129
- eBook ISBN: 9780128208793
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It Meng Low
Prof. Low gained his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from Monash University prior to taking up lecturer positions first at Auckland University and then Curtin University. In 1986-1988, he conducted post-doctoral research with Prof. Y-W Mai on fracture and toughening micromechanics of epoxy systems at Sydney University. He was awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Japanese Ministry of Education to work with Prof. Nihari at Osaka University in 1995/1996. He is a Fellow of the Australian Ceramic Society and serves on the editorial boards of several materials-related journals. He is also the recipient of the prestigious 1996 Joint Australian Ceramic Society/Ceramic Society of Japan Ceramic Award for excellence in ceramics research. Prof. Low has authored or edited more than 10 books (4 of these with Elsevier) and is author of over 250 archival research papers. His research interests include polymer- and ceramic matrix composites, nanomaterials, toughening and failure micromechanics.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Applied Physics, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaYD
Yu Dong
Yu Dong is an Associate Professor within the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His main research interests are polymer nanocomposites, electrospun nanofibers/nanocomposites, green composites, nanomaterial processing and characterisation, micromechanical modelling, finite element analysis, statistical design of experiments and engineering education. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 fully referred conference papers, written 10 book chapters and edited 3 technical books. He serves as an associate editor of two international journals, with the specialty recognition of nanomaterials and nanocomposites.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaRead Composite Materials on ScienceDirect