Scalable methods for directional assembly of fillers in polymer composites: Creating pathways for improving material properties

A Griffin, Y Guo, Z Hu, J Zhang, Y Chen… - Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer composites are ubiquitous and indispensable in numerous applications. Coupling
the inclusion of reinforcing agents with methods developed to control filler distribution and …

[HTML][HTML] Superior flexural, interlaminar-shear and fracture performance of glass fiber/epoxy laminates employing 3-D reinforcement approach: emphasis on through …

AO Fulmali, RN Kar, BC Ray, RK Prusty - Composites Part A: Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to the absence of z-directional reinforcement in laminated glass/epoxy (GE)
composites, their performance under out-of-plane normal and in-plane shear loadings are …

The multiple faces of graphene on anticorrosion: Advances and prospects

Q Wang, X Zhao, Y Qu, B Zhong… - Corrosion …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, graphene has remarkably enhanced the protective performance of
anticorrosive organic coatings, yielding increasingly frequent exciting results and …

Open-hole fatigue testing of UD-GFRP composite laminates containing aligned CNTs using infrared thermography

JR Pothnis, AK Hajagolkar, AR Anilchandra, R Das… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study aims to characterize the open-hole fatigue (OHF) behavior of
unidirectional glass fiber-reinforced polymer matrix (UD-GFRP) epoxy composites …

Monitoring stress concentration in polymers with circular notch exploiting graphene-based sensors

E Bellou, AC Manikas, MGP Carbone, S Peloni… - Polymer, 2025 - Elsevier
Failure of polymers frequently initiates at discontinuities in the material, such as holes and
notches, as they constitute points of increased stress concentration. Herein, we propose the …

Multiscale modeling for mechanical property estimation of polymer matrix composites with nano-and micro-scale reinforcements

AM Nagaraja, A BR, C Ramesh… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The current work proposes a combined atomistic-continuum numerical modeling to analyze
the constitutive response of a novel polymer composite consisting of multiscale …

Fatigue Characterization of Additively Manufactured Continuous Fiber Composites Using Traditional and Non-traditional Experimental Techniques

R De Finis, S Gururaja - Fracture Behavior of Nanocomposites and …, 2024 - Springer
In light of the rapid advancements in large-scale continuous fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)
composites processed via additive manufacturing (AM) for high-performance structural …

Open Hole Fatigue Testing of CNT Infused GFRP Multi-scale Composite Laminates Using Infrared Thermography

S Gururaja, N Manoharan, J Pothnis… - Society for Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Cutout or holes are unavoidable features in composite structures for structural assembly and
functionality that often result in regions of fatigue damage initiation. To enhance the fatigue …

Infrared Thermography based Rapid Fatigue Life Characterisation of Advanced Composites

S Gururaja - CAMX 2023, 2023 - digitallibrarynasampe.org
A throughline between composite process parameters, composite micro-structural
descriptors, and composite structural integrity can be drawn using a recently developed …