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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing and Performance II
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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing and Performance II

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2023) | Viewed by 3643

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Omar Alajarmeh

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Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Darling Heights, QLD, Australia
Interests: FRP composites; composites manufacturing; RC concrete structures; composite durability; FE modelling
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Dr. Alexander Safonov

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Skoltech Center for Design, Manufacturing, and Materials (CDMM), Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Interests: composite behaviour; hybrid materials; thermoplastics; thermosets; FE modelling; fracture mechanics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Further to the success of the Special Issue of Polymers “Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing and Performance ”, we are delighted to reopen the Special Issue, now entitled “Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing and Performance II ”.

This Special Issue deals with various aspects of the science and technology of composite materials, including the use of various types of fibers to reinforce the polymeric matrix. The range of potential topics includes the design and manufacture of reinforcing fibers, novel architectures and concepts, advanced manufacturing processes, soluble and insoluble additives, material characterization, microstructural characterization of the reinforced composites, novel mechanical testing methods, post-processing of reinforced composites, finite-element modelling of reinforced composites, and the durability and long-term performance prediction of the mechanical and physical behavior of composites in service.

Dr. Omar Alajarmeh
Dr. Alexander Safonov
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • advanced manufacturing
  • fiber architecture
  • thermoset-reinforced composites
  • thermoplastic-reinforced composites
  • microstructure composites
  • additives
  • long-term performance
  • durability

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Bonding Performance of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Bars under the Influence of Deformation Characteristics
by Fang Xie, Wanming Tian, Pedro Diez, Sergio Zlotnik and Alberto Garcia Gonzalez
Polymers 2023, 15(12), 2604; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15122604 - 7 Jun 2023
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Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) of high performance, as a relatively ideal partial or complete substitute for steel, could increase the possibility of adapting structures to changes in harsh weather environments. While GFRP is combined with concrete in the form of bars, the mechanical [...] Read more.
Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) of high performance, as a relatively ideal partial or complete substitute for steel, could increase the possibility of adapting structures to changes in harsh weather environments. While GFRP is combined with concrete in the form of bars, the mechanical characteristics of GFRP cause the bonding behavior to differ significantly from that of steel-reinforced members. In this paper, a central pull-out test was applied, according to ACI440.3R-04, to analyze the influence of the deformation characteristics of GFRP bars on bonding failure. The bond–slip curves of the GFRP bars with different deformation coefficients exhibited distinct four-stage processes. Increasing the deformation coefficient of the GFRP bars is able to significantly improve the bond strength between the GFRP bars and the concrete. However, while both the deformation coefficient and concrete strength of the GFRP bars were increased, the bond failure mode of the composite member was more likely to be changed from ductile to brittle. The results show members with larger deformation coefficients and moderate concrete grades, which generally have excellent mechanical and engineering properties. By comparing with the existing bond and slip constitutive models, it was found that the proposed curve prediction model was able to well match the engineering performance of GFRP bars with different deformation coefficients. Meanwhile, due to its high practicality, a four-fold model characterizing representative stress for the bond–slip behavior was recommended in order to predict the performance of the GFRP bars. Full article
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Fibrx Rocking Chair: Design and Application of Tailored Timber as an Embedded Frame for Natural Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (NFRP) Coreless Winding
by Alexandra Pittiglio, Ailey Simpson, Vanessa Costalonga Martins and Hanaa Dahy
Polymers 2023, 15(3), 495; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15030495 - 18 Jan 2023
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The building industry needs to innovate towards a more sustainable future and can do so through a combination of more renewable material choices and less wasteful fabrication processes. To address these issues, a hybrid material and fabrication system was developed using laminated timber [...] Read more.
The building industry needs to innovate towards a more sustainable future and can do so through a combination of more renewable material choices and less wasteful fabrication processes. To address these issues, a hybrid material and fabrication system was developed using laminated timber veneer and natural fibre-reinforced composites (NFRPs), two materials that are leveraged for their potential of strategic material placement in additive processes towards programmed material behaviour and performance. The main contribution is in the hybrid fabrication approach, using thin, bent laminated veneer as an embedded frame for coreless filament winding of NFRP, which removes the need for temporary, wasteful formwork that is typically required to achieve structurally performative bent timber or FRP elements. Integrative methods are developed for the design, simulation, and fabrication of a rocking chair prototype that illustrates the architectural potential of the developed fabrication approach. Full article
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