The translaminar fracture toughness is a key property that governs the damage tolerance and notch sensitivity of fibre-reinforced composites. Compact tension tests were performed to investigate composites reinforced with three types high-performance polymer fibres: polyarylate (PAR), polybenzobisoxazole (PBO) aramid fibre. A carbon fibre composite was used as reference system. propagation tough...

Abstract In mortars, the use of fibres has been diachronically a commonly used technique. Ancient Greece, wood and straw were particularly to increase volume stability in clay lime mortars. Overtime, with evolution technology, natural replaced by modern materials like polypropylene, steel, glass carbon fibres. Recently, climate change strong demand for independence from non-renewable mineral re...

The necessity to utilise environmentally friendly resources has emerged due environmental management. With the demand for production of plastics and wood materials, pollution increased. Consequently, attraction in natural fibre-reinforced polymer composites (NFPCs) is rapidly emerging construction industry, mainly replace synthetic fibre composites. intensified interest associated with manufact...

Structural batteries consist of carbon fibres embedded in a porous structural battery electrolyte (SBE), which is composed two continuous phases: solid polymer skeleton and liquid containing Li-salt. In this paper we elaborate on computational modelling framework to study the electro-chemo-mechanical properties such while accounting for combined action from migration as well stress-assisted dif...

The relationship between heat release rate and other fire reaction properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite materials is investigated. The heat release rate and fire reaction properties of thermoset matrix composites reinforced with combustible fibres (aramid, extended-chain polyethylene) or non-combustible fibres (glass, carbon) were determined over a range of heat flux levels using th...