scholarly journals Matrix and Filler Recycling of Carbon and Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: A Review

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 3817
Author(s):  
Roberto Scaffaro ◽  
Alberto Di Bartolo ◽  
Nadka Tz. Dintcheva
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Composite Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Frp Composites ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) are low-density, high-performance composite materials, which find important applications in the automotive, aerospace, and energy industry, to only cite a few. With the increasing concerns about sustainability and environment risks, the problem of the recycling of such complex composite systems has been emerging in politics, industry, and academia. The issue is exacerbated by the increased use of FRPs in the automotive industry and by the expected decommissioning of airplanes and wind turbines amounting to thousands of metric tons of composite materials. Currently, the recycling of FRPs downcycles the entire composite to some form of reinforcement material (typically for cements) or degrades the polymer matrix to recover the fibers. Following the principles of sustainability, the reuse and recycling of the whole composite—fiber and polymer—should be promoted. In this review paper, we report on recent research works that achieve the recycling of both the fiber and matrix phase of FRP composites, with the polymer being either directly recovered or converted to value-added monomers and oligomers.

Mode I transverse intralaminar fracture in glass fiber-reinforced polymers with ductile matrices

2017 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davi M. Montenegro ◽  
Francesco Bernasconi ◽  
Markus Zogg ◽  
Matthias Gössi ◽  
Rafael Libanori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Mode I ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced

First Evaluations on Structural Response of FRP Pultruded Applications Subjected to Seismic Actions

2014 ◽  
Vol 900 ◽  
pp. 449-454
Author(s):  
Giosuè Boscato
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Independent Solution ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Seismic Behaviour ◽  
Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Innovative Solution

The present work proposes and analyses the solution for seismic behaviour of GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers) applications to evaluate the performances respect to dynamic actions considering the global effect on historical structures. The good strength-self-weight relationship defines the GFRP pultruded profile as an efficacious and innovative solution for structural rehabilitation of historical buildings. The composite material with polymeric matrix, FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymers), is widely used in civil engineering as sheets, bars and strips. Recently a new technology was adopted to improve the structural response with limited increment of dead load with reversible and independent solution.

Mechanical properties of fiber reinforced polymer composites: A comparative study of conventional and additive manufacturing methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (23) ◽  
pp. 3173-3181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuldeep Agarwal ◽  
Suresh K Kuchipudi ◽  
Benoit Girard ◽  
Matthew Houser
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites ◽  
Composite Filament

Fiber reinforced polymer composites have been around for many decades but recently their use has started to increase in multiple industries such as automotive, aerospace, and construction. The conventional composite manufacturing processes such as wet lay-up, resin transfer molding, automatic lay ups etc. suffer from a lot of practical and material issues which have limited their use. The mechanical properties of the parts produced by such processes also suffer from variation that causes problems downstream. Composites based additive manufacturing processes such as Fused Deposition Modeling and Composite Filament Fabrication are trying to remove some of the barriers to the use of composites. Additive manufacturing processes offer more design and material freedom than conventional composite manufacturing processes. This paper compares conventional composite processes for the manufacturing of Epoxy-Fiberglass fiber reinforced polymers with composite filament fabrication based Nylon-Fiberglass fiber reinforced polymers. Mechanical properties such as tensile strength, elastic modulus, and fatigue life are compared for the different processes. The effect of process parameters on these mechanical properties for the composite filament fabrication based process is also examined in this work. It is found that the composite filament fabrication based process is very versatile and the parts manufactured by this process can be used in various applications.

scholarly journals Concrete columns confined with different composite materials

2018 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 09012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Donnini ◽  
Valeria Corinaldesi
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Concrete Columns ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Vapor Permeability ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Low Performance

In the last decades, the need for upgrading, strengthening and retrofitting of existing concrete structures is rapidly growing. Composite materials showed to be an optimal solution to face this problem, combining high efficacy with low invasiveness. The use of Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) to wrap concrete columns has been widely investigated and became a very successful method to improve their structural performances. However, it has been recognized that FRPs, due to the presence of an organic resin, have a few drawbacks, such as poor mechanical behavior at high temperatures, lack of vapor permeability and impossibility to be installed on wet surfaces. This experimental work aims to propose a comparison between three different innovative methods as possible strengthening solutions for existing concrete columns. The structural behavior of 20 reduced scale concrete columns, realized by using a low performance concrete, in order to reproduce the poor mechanical properties of existing structures, was investigated. Two unreinforced column were tested in compression as reference. Six of them where reinforced by applying an external layer of FRP, with different types of fabric reinforcement (made of carbon or PBO fibers). Six columns were reinforced by using the same fabrics coupled with an inorganic matrix (FRCM) instead of epoxy. Six other columns were reinforced by using a layer of High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) of 3 cm thick. Experimental results have been analyzed and performance of the three reinforcement systems have been compared.

scholarly journals Exposure of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Seawater and the Effect on Their Physical Performance

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Cavasin ◽  
Marco Sangermano ◽  
Barry Thomson ◽  
Stefanos Giannis
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fiber ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Mechanical Analysis ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Chemical Action ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites ◽  
Water Effects

An innovative testing methodology to evaluate the effect of long-term exposure to a marine environment on Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRPs) has been investigated and is presented in this paper. Up to one-year ageing was performed in seawater, to simulate the environment for offshore oil and gas applications. The performance of an epoxy and epoxy-based GFRP exposed at different temperatures from 25 to 80 °C was quantified. The materials were also aged in dry air, to de-couple the thermal effect from the seawater chemical action. Gravimetric testing and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) were conducted in parallel on progressively aged specimens. The effect of specimen geometry and the anisotropic nature of diffusion are comprehensively discussed in this paper. For the quasi-infinite specimens, the results show an exponential increase in the seawater absorption rate with temperature. The methodology allowed for the prediction of the diffusivity at a temperature of 4 °C as 0.23 and 0.05 × 10−13 m2/s for the epoxy and the epoxy-based composite, respectively. The glass transition temperature reduces as sea water is absorbed, yet the sea water effects appear to be reversible upon drying.

Self-Healing Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 770-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian P. Bond ◽  
Richard S. Trask ◽  
Hugo R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Internal Damage ◽  
Frp Composite ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites ◽  
Weight Penalty

AbstractSelf-healing is receiving an increasing amount of interest worldwide as a method to address damage in materials. In particular, for advanced high-performance fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials, self-healing offers an alternative to employing conservative damage-tolerant designs and a mechanism for ameliorating inaccessible and invidious internal damage within a structure. This article considers in some detail the various self-healing technologies currently being developed for FRP composite materials. Key constraints for incorporating such a function in FRPs are that it not be detrimental to inherent mechanical properties and that it not impose a severe weight penalty.

Material Characterization for Constituents of Fiber Reinforced Polymers by Experiments and Prediction of Effective Composite Properties

2017 ◽  
Vol 742 ◽  
pp. 714-722
Author(s):  
Joseph Goldmann ◽  
Markus Kaestner ◽  
Volker Ulbricht
Keyword(s):  
Single Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Reinforced Polymers ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Fiber Fragmentation ◽  
The One ◽  
Composite Properties

The present contribution aims to investigate the ability of drawing predictive conclusions from homogenization in case of damage. Therefor, two topics will be addressed. On the one hand, material properties for the constituents on the microscale have to be derived, to render a predictive homogenization possible. The investigation at hand is concerned with glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin. In this example the properties of the fiber and the matrix have to be studied individually by experiments. Furthermore, the interface between both materials needs to be examined. To this end experiments on several models of single fiber composites have been developed in the literature. For the present material combination single fiber fragmentation tests and pullout tests have been conducted and evaluated. On the other hand, boundary conditions are necessary, that allow for the strain localization in a volume element without leading to spurious localization zones.

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