Recycling and reprocessing of crosslinked EVA through Vitrimerization.

Recent past decades have witnessed remarkable advances in composites with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil engineering, energy, electronic engineering, and household products. Thermoset polymer composites have further enhanced and broadened the area of applications of composites. In the present work epoxy-BMI toughened-silica hybrid (RHA/DGEBA-BMI) was pr...

This study is concerned with finding an improved route to achieve superior properties of carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced nanocomposites by designing their interface using multi-scale modeling. CNTs, widely used as fillers in nanocomposites, and polymer epoxy matrices, are coarse-grained and simulated via dissipative particle dynamics. Then, reverse-mapping of the coarse-grained models into ato...

A computer code is developed to accurately simulate the three-dimensional heat transfer during the thermoset fiber placement composite manufacturing process. The code is based on the Lagrangian formulation of the problem. Eight-node brick elements are employed, and the 2 2 2 integration rule is used to numerically evaluate the integrals over an element. The coupled ordinary differential equatio...