This paper presents the results of thermo-mechanical characterization of Glass/Epoxy composite specimens using Infrared Thermography technique. The specimens used for the study were fabricated in-house with three different lay-up sequences and tested on a servo hydraulic machine under uni-axial loading. Infrared Camera was used for on-line monitoring surface temperature changes of composite spe...

An analytical model to predict the linear viscoelastic behavior of thin-walled laminated fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composite beams is presented. Using the correspondence principle, this new model integrates micro/macro-mechanics of composites and mechanics of thin-walled laminated beams to perform beam. analyses in the Laplace or Carson domains. The analytical expressions for beam relaxati...

This paper demonstrates the viability of in-situ transmission electron microscopy for studying the deformation mechanisms of polymer nano-composites. In-situ straining studies are performed on carbon multiwalled nanotube (MWNT)-polystyrene composite films. The experiments show that load transfer across the nanotube-polystyrene interface is operative well into the plastic deformation regime of t...

The propenies of the interphase in wood-polymer composites ~ important determinaou of the propenies of the final composite. This study used inverse ps chromatOll'Bphy (IGC) to measure interpbasal propenies of composites of polystyrene and two types of wood fiber fillers and an inOllaDic substrate (CW) with varying amounts of surface cove,. of polystyrene. Glass transition temperatures, thennody...

Solid-state recycling, which involves the direct recycling of scrap metal into bulk material using severe plastic deformation, has emerged as a potential alternative to the conventional remelting and recycling techniques. Hot press forging has been identified as a sustainable direct recycling technique that has fewer steps and maintains excellent material performance. An experimental investigat...

The current handling of waste, especially styrofoam, plastic, used oil is not optimal, these wastes can be to manufacture other products such as bricks with a simple process. If the waste processed properly, it will get good economic value. To value or product, necessary do research testing, in this study, namely use styrofoam plastic and bricks. In hoped that public understand quality types co...

high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composite (hpfrcc) materials exhibit strain hardening behavior with multiple cracking under tensile loading. in this paper, experimental and parametric studies are performed to assess the influence of using hpfrcc material instead of normal concrete in reinforced concrete beams. after calibrating the experimental results, the analytical results inc...

The critical state stability in a composite superconductor under an external stress, causing plastic strain yield, is considered. The obtained criterion of the stability against thermomagnetic-mechanical perturbations allows the explanation of the training phenomenon as a process of consequent strain hardening of the superconductor. The training of superconducting materials is a well known phen...

surements can be performed at much reduced exposure times THE load-bearing capacity of a metal matrix composite and in small diffracting volumes, thus allowing for investi(MMC) is dictated by the load transfer occurring from the gating the time dependenceof lattice strains and for mapping compliant, soft matrix to the stiff, hard reinforcements. such strains with a lateral resolution of a fract...