About this Research Topic
A strong grasp and understanding of various materials and their manufacturing processes are crucial in today's ever-expanding world. Given the need to widen basic materials' applications, it is vital to investigate the opportunities offered by fiber-reinforced additively manufactured polymer-based composite materials. There are massive requirements for these products in aerospace (wings, windows, tails, fuselage, stabilizers, etc. sports (tennis rackets, athletic shoes, bicycle frames), automotive (chassis components, engine, and body components, door panels), medical (dentures, implant surgical guides, and custom trays), space applications (mid-fuselage truss structure, payload bay door, pressure vessels), and marine applications (sailboats, yachts, fishing boats).
In this Research Topic, we aim to collect articles discussing the innovation in additive manufacturing technologies focusing on producing composite materials with high mechanical and thermal performance, lightweight, and low-cost products.
The research plans are not limited to the development, material characterization, and optimization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials. This Research Topic also accepts Articles discussing systematic computational tools to study the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured composite parts under various processing conditions and parameters such as printing direction, printing pattern, fiber orientation, fiber type, and fiber distribution.
We welcome contributions on exploring Topics of interest including, but not limited to the following:
1. Development/Fabrication of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
2. Material characterization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
3. Mechanical and thermal property analysis of additively manufactured composite parts.
4. Systematic computational modeling of fiber-reinforced additively manufactured parts.
5. Influence of different process parameters (printing direction, printing pattern, print height, etc.) and fiber behavior (fiber distribution, fiber orientation, fiber-matrix interfacial gaps) on the behavior of additively manufactured parts.
6. Influence of fiber based on structure (continuous, long, short, flat, or round), size (macro-, micro-, and nanofibers), and origin (natural, synthetic, and biodegradable)
7. Process parameter optimization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
In this Research Topic, we aim to collect articles discussing the innovation in additive manufacturing technologies focusing on producing composite materials with high mechanical and thermal performance, lightweight, and low-cost products.
The research plans are not limited to the development, material characterization, and optimization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials. This Research Topic also accepts Articles discussing systematic computational tools to study the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured composite parts under various processing conditions and parameters such as printing direction, printing pattern, fiber orientation, fiber type, and fiber distribution.
We welcome contributions on exploring Topics of interest including, but not limited to the following:
1. Development/Fabrication of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
2. Material characterization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
3. Mechanical and thermal property analysis of additively manufactured composite parts.
4. Systematic computational modeling of fiber-reinforced additively manufactured parts.
5. Influence of different process parameters (printing direction, printing pattern, print height, etc.) and fiber behavior (fiber distribution, fiber orientation, fiber-matrix interfacial gaps) on the behavior of additively manufactured parts.
6. Influence of fiber based on structure (continuous, long, short, flat, or round), size (macro-, micro-, and nanofibers), and origin (natural, synthetic, and biodegradable)
7. Process parameter optimization of additively manufactured polymer composite materials
Keywords: Fiber-reinforced, composite materials, computational modeling, additive Manufacturing, Statistical modeling
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