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As composite materials gain wider acceptance within the transportation industry, it is pertinent to investigate the available coating processes with a view to reduce emissions and associated costs. Current painting processes are not only...
Advanced composites which offer robust mechanical properties are being increasingly used for structural applications in the aerospace, marine, defense and transportation industries. However, the anisotropic nature of composite materials...
A 81-mm mortar barrel that is at least 50% lighter than the current steel barrel used in the M252 mortar system would prove to be advantageous for the army. The desire for the weight reduction was based on the army's vision of the future...
Polymeric foam materials continue to gather commercial and research interests due to their unique physical characteristics and emerging applications in a wide variety of industries. This research work viewed the polymer foam industry...
Advanced ceramics and ceramic composites have a variety of advantageous properties, such as high hardness, strength, and wear resistance. This makes them good candidates for materials in the aerospace, automotive and defense industries, ...
The goal of this research is to fabricate, characterize and apply the designed polymer based porous piezoelectric material into practical use. In line with the goal, the research objectives are: Select proper materials that have...
The advantages of using polymer matrix composites in various applications are very well known throughout many industries. Their introduction and subsequent development since the 1940's has led to major cost savings due to their...
Since the first Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV was invented in 1927, display technology has progressed at a rapid speed, attracting tremendous attention and enormous resources. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is the most mature and popular...
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, a new era in nanotechnology opened up, impacting both scientific and technological fronts. One of the key challenges in processing of carbon nanotube-based materials and...
Polymer composites are in a period of significant growth due to the increased use in the automobile, marine and aerospace application. Some of the advantages of using composites over other materials are weight savings, corrosion...
Triboluminescent-based sensor systems have the potential to enable in-situ and distributed structural health monitoring of composite structures. Inability to effectively capture and transmit optical signals generated within opaque...
Materials with negative Poisson's ratio are referred to as auxetic materials. They are different from conventional materials in their deformation behavior when responding to external stresses. The cross-section of the materials widens in...
Halide perovskites bring an unprecedented opportunity for low-cost high performance optoelectronic devices due to their extraordinary optical and electrical properties along with their solution processible nature. The record power...
The resin transfer molding (RTM) process has been used in the composite industry for decades. However, several issues still exist and impede its wide applications. Some design tools for RTM parts have been developed but a more efficient...
This dissertation presents a systematic study on the dimension variation prediction and control for polymer matrix fiber reinforced composites. A dimension variation model was developed for process simulation based on thermal stress...
Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanocomposites were synthesized by several methods using both pristine and surface functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)...
Halide perovskite materials have emerged in the past few years as promising materials in the absorption layer of photovoltaic cells and new emissive materials for use in light emitting diodes (LEDs). This is due to their rapidly...
A novel ceramic-polymer hybrid composite is fabricated by co-curing lay-up process to combine a carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced ceramic composite film with a carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite substrate. A transition layer...
The key objective of nanomaterial metrology is to extract relevant information on nano-structure for quantitatively correlating structure-property with functionality. Historic improvements on in- strumentation platforms has enabled...
Polycarbonate (PC) is a transparent, impact resistant polymer that provides protection against breakage or intrusion. The mechanical toughness of PC is reported to be associated with the molecular motion of main chain molecules. The...
In general, composite manufacturing processes have more variations compared to the metal manufacturing processes due to the larger raw material and manufacturing processes variations. Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM), one...
The discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Iijima in 1991 has initiated a great deal of scientific research on exploring their unique properties and potential applications. One of the promising applications is integrating CNTs into...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) demonstrate extraordinary properties and show great promise in enhancing in-plane and out-of-plane properties of traditional polymer/fiber composites and enabling functionality. However, current manufacturing...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have excellent mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties making them outstanding reinforcements in polymer matrix composites. In this research, the effect of CNT-integration in polymer matrices (two-phase)...
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) thin films exhibit great potential in various applications thanks to their extraordinary physical and mechanical properties. However, to fully take advantage of their superior properties there are...
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