Aging of Polymeric Materials and Structures
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2023) | Viewed by 2825
Special Issue Editor
Interests: composites; crushing; impact; environmental; FEA; microscale modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
During their lifetime, polymers and polymeric composites suffer as a result of different working conditions that highly affect their behavior. Polymers are extremely sensitive to heat, oxygen, sunlight, the ozone, ionizing radiation, moisture, and similar conditions that cause the degradation of the mechanical properties of the material and its structure. These factors, individually or combined, result in the chemical transformations of molecules, which lead to the degradation of the macromolecules and cross linking. The current Special Issue aims to collect varying contributions concerned with the aging effect on the polymeric materials and structures, including composites under different loading conditions (both experimental and modeling). A chemical and optical assessment of the aging effect on the materials is also of high interest to the current Special Issue. Aging causes the deterioration of the mechanical characteristics of polymers and surface crack growth that sometimes result in catastrophic failure. The current Special Issue aims to determine and explore the different failure mechanisms associated with the different aging conditions, in relation to both the material and structure levels.
Dr. Tamer Ali Sebaey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aging
- conditioning
- polymers
- composites
- hygrothermal
- radiation
- mechanical properties
- chemical degradation
- environmental
- experimental
- analytical modeling
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