Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Laminates: Structure and Properties

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on the structure and properties of fibre-reinforced polymer-based laminates will contain original research and review papers on key topics, including:

• Industrial applications: aerospace, ground based transportation, marine, renewable energies, civil engineering, sports and leisure, medical, agricultural applications.
• Materials: fibre-reinforced polymers, prepregs.
• Structural behaviour: uniaxial testing, bending, impact, multiaxial testing, non-standard experimental methods, anisotropy, fracture and damage, multiscale modelling, short and long fibre composites, buckling and stability, pseudo-ductile composites, application of numerical techniques.

This Special Issue focuses on experimental, numerical and analytical studies about fibre-reinforced polymer-based materials with structural applications. In addition to the topics already listed, the issue may also interlock the subjects of Strength of Materials and Continuum Mechanics for practical applications, including constitutive equations, optimization techniques, the Finite Element Method (FEM) or the application of novel experimental methodologies. Both original contributions and reviews are welcome. In short, all contributions that allow for the dissemination of the best knowledge of laminates manufactured by fibre-reinforced polymers will be covered in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Serna Moreno
Prof. Dr. Juan Luis Martínez Vicente
Guest Editors

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