Carbon Fiber Reinforced Shape Memory Polymer Composites

By Ken Gall, M. Mikulas, N. Munshi, F. Beavers, M. Tupper. 2000

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Shape-memory polymers for microelectromechanical systems (2004, background): “More recently, shape-memory polymers have emerged as a candidate material for innovative medical devices [20]–[24] and deployable space structures [ 25 ].”
Shape memory polymers for composites (2018, background): “Reinforced shape memory polymer composites mainly include particle [71e74], nanofiber [75,76], short fiber [77,78] and long fiber [79,80] reinforcement.”
A review of shape memory polymer composites and blends (2009, background): “or fabrics are effective in increasing the stiffness of epoxy SMP resins [67,68].”
Shape Memory Mechanics of an Elastic Memory Composite Resin (2003, background): “However, when incorporated into a fiber-reinforced composite, both the stiffness and the recovery force of a shape memory polymer can be dramatically improved (Liang et al., 1997; Gall et al., 2000; Ni et al., 2000).”
Shape-memory polymers and their composites: Stimulus methods and applications (2011, background): “Based on the high-strain capability and relatively good mechanical properties, the fiber-reinforced SMP composites show potential for deployable structures applications [36,171,192,193].”