Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Polymer Composites

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue is explicitly devoted to the mechanical properties of 3D-printed polymer composites. More than 2000 special issues of Polymers are currently open or have been published since 2010. “Mechanic…” was in titles or keywords of 350 issues, while “Composite” was in 1050 cases, “3D print…” was in 150 cases. All these keywords are topical, and the combination of them is the main idea of this issue. We believe that such a combination makes the scope of the issue more narrow and specific and, at the same time, more interesting.

Composites within this issue are engineered materials composed of two or more constituents that meet requirements that a single material cannot fulfill. A polymer is expected to be a matrix reinforced by short or long fibres, containers, particles, or fillers. The particles or fillers can be metallic, ceramic, mineral, synthetic, natural or bio-based and may possess one or more nano-scale dimensions. The composites are considered on the various structural levels of modification with nanoparticles, micro-composites, and macro-level, including hybrids. Special attention is paid to recycled composites or constituents, reused fibres, etc.

Experimental research and modelling of the mechanical properties are welcome. Contributors are invited not to limit their research to “easy-to-get” quasistatic tensile tests but also to more labour-consuming creep or fatigue tests. Concerning modelling, not only FEM is an instrument. Please consider classical (or not only) analytical modelling as well.

Dr. Andrey Aniskevich
Dr. Olga Bulderberga
Guest Editors

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• mechanical properties
• 3D print
• polymer composites
• experiment
• modelling