Hydrogen is emerging as a promising future energy medium in a wide range of industries.
For mobile applications, it is commonly stored in a gaseous state within high-pressure …

Composite materials have now been adopted in a wide range of applications, primarily due
to their weight-saving potential. Overwhelmingly so, these materials have been used in …

Functionally graded porous (FGP) nanocomposites are the most promising materials among
the manufacturing and materials sector due to their adjustable physical, mechanical, and …

Laser-assisted thermoplastic composite automated placement method has been applied to
the molding of composites due to its advantages of fast molding speed and high heating …

The automated fiber placement process (AFP) enables the manufacturing of large and
geometrical complex fiber composite structures with high quality at low cycle times. Although …

The stickiness of prepregs (tack) is considered a decisive material property for the success
of high‐quality composite manufacturing by automated lay‐up processes such as automated …

Automated fiber placement (AFP) is an advanced manufacturing method for composites,
which is especially suitable for large-scale composite components. However, some …

In the present study, an extensive experimental investigation using various process
parameters and steering radii is performed to gain a deeper understanding of the defect …

Continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTPCs) have advantages such as
high specific strength, high specific modulus, corrosion resistance, and recyclability and are …

Highly aligned discontinuous fiber (ADF) composites have been developed with mechanical
properties comparable to continuous fiber composites. These materials can be stretched in …