Mechanical Characterizations and Applications of Carbon Fiber Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 1310
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Interests: polymer composites; nanocomposites; probabilistic mechanics and design; dynamic response; application of AI in composites
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymer–matrix composites with carbon fiber reinforcements are finding ever increasing applications in aerospace, mechanical, transportation, green energy, and civil infrastructure engineering fields. Fibers at the nano-level and the micro-level are used in discontinuous and continuous reinforcement forms to achieve superior mechanical properties, durability, and high performance. The present Special Issue focuses on recent developments in the characterization of nano-, micro-, meso-, and macro-level mechanical properties of such composites using experimental, analytical, and computational approaches and techniques. It also focuses on the novel, innovative applications of such composites in the abovementioned engineering areas and other similar areas. Research works on tensile, compressive, shear, fracture, fatigue, creep, impact, and damping properties of such composites, as well as on the durability and degradation due to temperature and moisture, will be covered in this Special Issue. Works on nanocomposites involving atomistic, molecular, and continuum mechanics computational modeling, experimental investigations, and hybrid approaches will also be covered. Static and dynamic applications for machine tools, machine elements, mechanical structures, aerospace structures, automobile structures and components, naval vessels, helicopter blades and rotors, infrastructure, rotating machinery, and similar practical components and structures will be of interest to the present Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Rajamohan Ganesan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- composites
- carbon fiber
- aerospace composites
- mechanical behavior
- fracture
- fatigue
- creep
- nanocomposites
- smart structures
- material testing
- computational material modeling
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