We report our experience with carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) plates in the management of 19 problem fractures complicated by either infection, nonunion, comminution or contamination. The combination offers secure fixation without inhibition of callus formation.

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite materials have favorable mechanical and physical properties such as low density, high strength-to-weight ratio, fatigue resistance creep behavior, stiffness. Thanks to these unique properties, they produce aircraft parts outer flaps, carry-through structures, center wing boxes automotive body panels, engine components, structure members. However,...

─This paper presents the retrofitting of beam-column joint using CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) and steel plate. This specimen was tested until failure up to 1.0% drift. This joint suffered severe damages and diagonal cracks at upper crack at upper column before retrofitted. CFRP were wrapped at corbel, bottom and top of the column. Steel plates with bonding were attached to the two bea...

The two Non-Destructive Evaluation [ NDE ] techniques viz., Air Coupled Ultrasonic [ACU ] and Pulsed Thermography [PT ] find many applications in aerospace industry . These NDE techniques can be used for debond detection in spacecraft structural components like honeycomb sandwich deck plates, shear web panels and central cylinder made of aluminum core and composite face sheets. The Air coupled ...

Slotted Waveguide Antenna Stiffened Structure (SWASS) is a type of conformal load-bearing antenna where top-hat cross-section stiffeners on skins, or blade stiffeners in sandwich panels, serve the dual purpose of acting both as structural stiffeners and as waveguides. Cutting slots through the outer skin and into these waveguide stiffeners creates slotted waveguide antenna arrays. Two of the ke...

Neutral fragments from a nanosecond KrF excimer laser-ablated carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP, carbon fiber/epoxy resin composite) were investigated by laser-ionization time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry in order to explore the laser ablation dynamics of CFRP. The neutrals were detected after the post-ionization by an ArF excimer laser pulse at variable delay times, td, relative to th...

The main objective of this work is quantitative evaluation of porosity in carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) with the help of X-ray computed tomography (XCT). For this purpose two types of sample were compared. Industrial porosity sample was obtained from an aeronautical industry. Artificially induced porosity samples were created by drilling holes with diameter 0.2 mm and 0.3 mm in non-po...

Beyond imaging the mass distribution of materials by X-ray absorption techniques recent synchrotron and laboratory X-ray refraction techniques provide interface contrast imaging of micro structures. This is of specific relevance to carbon fibre composites (CFRP) which constitute advanced aerospace components. Apart from merely finding isolated flaws like cracks or pores within the natural high ...

This study examines the in-situ shear performance and modes of failure of reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams (joists) strengthened with externally bonded carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets. The experimental program consisted of testing a series of nine structural components at the Malcom Bliss Hospital, in St.Louis, Missouri. The members were tested to validate the different systems an...