Composite Materials: Manufacturing, Properties and Applications

by It Meng Low (Editor), Yu Dong (Editor)

Overview

Composite 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128205129
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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.

Table of Contents

Manufacturing

1. Futuristic synthesis strategies for aluminum-based metal-matrix composites 2. Geopolymer composites modified with nanomaterials 3. Advanced hybrid fiber-reinforced composites for high material performance 4. 3-D printing composite materials: A comprehensive review 5. Fiber composites of inorganic polymers (geopolymers) reinforced with natural fibers

Properties

6. Interphase and interfacial properties of composite materials 7. Durability and life prediction of fiber-reinforced polymer composites 8. Composites for structural strengthening, repair, rehabilitation, and retrofit 9. Vinyl-ester composites reinforced with natural fibers and nanofillers 10. Fracture mechanics of composites: Reinforcement of short carbon and glass fibers 11. Mechanical properties of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber-reinforced fly ash geopolymer and fly ash-slag-blended geopolymer composites 12. Thermal damage in carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composites: A critical review 13. Self-healing and self-sensing smart polymer composites 14. Lightning strike damage on carbon fiber-reinforced composites: Prediction and protection 15. Fire behavior and flame-retardant properties of application-oriented fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs)

Applications

16. Advances in multistable composite structures and their applications 17. Intelligent composite materials for use as sensors and actuators 18. High-temperature superlubricity behaviors of γ-Fe2O3@SiO2 nanocomposite coatings 19. Polymeric composites for X-ray shielding applications 20. Synthesis of nuclear-grade nano-sized boron carbide powders and its application in LDPE matrix composites for neutron shielding 21. Shape memory polymer composites and their smart structural applications 22. Analysis of architecture and performance of three-dimensional braided composites 23. Biomass-derived porous carbon nanostructures for supercapacitor applications

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Presents the latest advances in the types, design, fabrication, modeling, properties and applications of conventional and advanced composite materials