Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing, Properties, and Applications

By D. Rajak, Durgesh Devchand Pagar, Pradeep L. Menezes, Emanoil Linul. Polymers, 2019

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Composites have been found to be the most promising and discerning material available in this century. Presently, composites reinforced with fibers of synthetic or natural materials are gaining more importance as demands for lightweight materials with high strength for specific applications are growing in the market. Fiber-reinforced polymer composite offers not only high strength to weight ratio, but also reveals exceptional properties such as high durability; stiffness; damping property; flexural strength; and resistance to corrosion, wear, impact, and fire. These wide ranges of diverse features have led composite materials to find applications in mechanical, construction, aerospace, automobile, biomedical, marine, and many other manufacturing industries. Performance of composite materials predominantly depends on their constituent elements and manufacturing techniques, therefore, functional properties of various fibers available worldwide, their classifications, and the manufacturing techniques used to fabricate the composite materials need to be studied in order to figure out the optimized characteristic of the material for the desired application. An overview of a diverse range of fibers, their properties, functionality, classification, and various fiber composite manufacturing techniques is presented to discover the optimized fiber-reinforced composite material for significant applications. Their exceptional performance in the numerous fields of applications have made fiber-reinforced composite materials a promising alternative over solitary metals or alloys.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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Polymer-Based Composites: An Indispensable Material for Present and Future Applications (2020, methodology): “By using hybrid kenaf/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites, the specific strength and rain erosion resistance of aircraft are increased while carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide when used to produce aircraft brakes tend to endure temperature as high as 1200°C [14].”
Effect of natural filler materials on fiber reinforced hybrid polymer composites: An Overview (2020, methodology): “There are many ways of hybridization such as layer by layer stacking sequence, placing different fibers in one layer, placing at 0°, 45° and 90° orientation and selective placing of fiber based on requirement (Arpitha et al. 2017; Rajak et al. 2019).”
Plant-Based Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites: A Review on Fabrication, Properties and Applications (2020, background): “The composites show better physicochemical properties if suitable interactions between the fibre and the matrix are provided [68,98].”