Wet Fiber Placement (WFP) is a novel process for manufacturing complex shaped parts from continuous fiber-reinforced polymers without semi-finished products. Here, dry fiber bundles (rovings) are in-line impregnated with thermoset resin, followed by almost tension-free deposition. The freshly and limp rovings allow placement in radii. Due to the lack of compression deposition, subsequent consol...

Front Cover: Article 2200972 by Tiejun Wang and co-workers proposes a reactive blending strategy to develop thermoplastic-thermoset blends with enhanced compatibility based on dynamic bond exchange reactions at the interface. This work offers an innovative way design fabricate new polymeric materials thermoplastics thermosets. It also suggests facile direction towards upcycling

High-performance polymer fibres offer promising tensile and physical properties but are rarely used in structural composite applications due to their poor compressive performance. To better understand performance inside a composite, unidirectional thermoset composites made with three types of were tested shear-loaded compression. The results confirmed the despite good fibre alignment, low poros...