Non-destructive Evaluation of Composite Materials (Second Volume)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 1640
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Interests: computational mechanics; composite materials; mechanical design; numerical methods for engineering; mechanical engineering aspects of micro/nanoscale engineering; non-destructive evaluation; wind turbines; biomimetic
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Dear Colleagues,
The production of composite materials is growing very rapidly, and it is expected to continue to increase at a rate of 10 to 13 percent over the next few years. The industrial sectors leading the current growth in composite component manufacturing are engineering (automobile, aerospace, naval), civil, wind, sports and medical.
An even faster development in the use of polymer composites can be enhanced by non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques that can verify properties, determine structural integrity, monitor performance over time and test the quality of the products to ensure that their specifications are met.
Composites are characterized by manufacturing techniques such as spray lay-up, filament winding, bag moulding, pultrusion, hand lay-up, injection moulding, resin transfer moulding and compression moulding, which can cause the formation of different types of defects and flaws in terms of porosity, delamination, air bubbles, cracks, blowholes and inclusion of foreign bodies in the matrix. Moreover, defects in composite structures can form during service, in most cases due to impacts and fatigue.
For composites enriched with nanoparticles, a non-destructive evaluation technique capable of testing their dispersion would be of great use to the industry since it is well known in the literature that it is the parameter that much more than others can influence all the final physical properties. Few NDE techniques can be found in literature which are able to evaluate the level of dispersion of the nanoparticles in the whole nanocomposite, but they are quickly increasing in number.
The non-destructive techniques capable of detecting defects are numerous, for example: ultrasonic, thermography, acoustic emission, eddy current, X-ray, shearography, dielectric techniques, and variation-damping method.
In this Special Issue, modern trends in the non-destructive evaluation of composite materials, including testing the dispersion of nanoparticles in nanocomposites, are highlighted and discussed.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Pantano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-destructive evaluation
- non-destructive testing
- non-destructive testing of dispersion in nanocomposites
- composite
- ultrasonic
- thermography
- acoustic emission
- eddy current
- shearography
- X-ray
- dielectric techniques
- variation-damping method
