Owing to the growing global environmental problems, demands for environmentally friendly, fully biodegradable sustainable composites have substantially increased across various industries. Inspired by the composite structure of cocoon silk, we fabricated a fully green composite fiber (GCF) that is based on the lotus fiber (LF) and a biodegradable polymer, namely poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). After...

Tailor Welded Blanks (TWBs) made of dissimilar, uniform or non uniform thickness materials have potential applications in automobile industries for light weight materials in order to improve fuel efficiency and cost of carrier. The focus of this paper is to develop and present analytical model to determine total elongation of tailor welded blank (TWBs). The validation of this method is done by ...

Piezoelectrics have been widely used in different kinds of applications, from the automobile industry to consumer electronics. The novel multilayer piezoelectrics, which are inspired by multilayer ceramic capacitors, not only minimize the size of the functional parts, but also maximize energy efficiency. Development of multilayer piezoelectric devices is at a significant crossroads on the way t...

Friction stir welding is used as a solid state joining process for soft materials such as aluminium alloys and also for hard materials like steels. It avoids many of the common problems obtained in fusion welding. In mechanical, civil, automobile, naval, and aeronautical engineering beams are widely used of the magnesium alloys for different applications and that are joined by conventional iner...

Research on the modelling of industrial materials is particularly important for the automobile industry, in which there is a rather broad spectrum of materials interests. For a recent review of automotive materials needs, see Ref. 1. Processing and design of automotive materials often involves issues of adhesion. The nature of the strong bonds which can form between materials in intimate contac...