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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"polymeric composite materials"”.
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Mechanics of Fiber-Controlled Behavior in Polymeric Composite Materials
… durability and damage tolerance predictions for composite material systems rely on accurate estimates of the local stress and material states for each of the constituents, as well as the manner in which the constituents interact. In this work, an number of approaches to estimating the stress …
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Polymer Chemistry for Improved Self -Healing Composite Materials
Polymeric composite materials that are able to undergo self-healing through a microcapsule-based mechanism have been developed. The first successful example of this type of material was based on the ring-opening metathesis polymerization of endo-dicyclopentadiene using Grubbs' catalyst. The work …
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Design and development of a novel lightweight long-reach composite robotic arm
… focuses on exploring the feasibility of using polymeric composite materials for the construction of long-reach robotic arms. Different manipulator layouts were investigated and an ideal design was selected for a robotic arm that has a 5 [m] reach, 50 [kg] payload, and is intended to operate on …
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Nanostructured composite materials based on carbon nanotubes and 3-D photonic crystals
… electronic and optical properties. Various polymeric composite materials, which were based on carbon nanotubes, have been also developed in an attempt to combine the properties of polymer and CNT in a single film. Such composites were mainly formed by mixing carbon nanotubes within the …