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- Title
Technology and Development of Self-Reinforced Polymer Composites.
- Authors
Alcock, Ben; Peijs, Ton
- Abstract
In recent years there has been an increasing amount of interest, both commercially and scientifically, in the emerging field of ˵self-reinforced polymer composites″. These materials, which are sometimes also referred to as ˵single polymer composites″, or ˵all-polymer composites″, were first conceived in the 1970s, and are now beginning to appear in a range of commercial products. While high mechanical performance polymer fibres or tapes are an obvious precursor for composite development, various different technologies have been developed to consolidate these into two- or three-dimensional structures. This paper presents a review of the various processing techniques that have been reported in the literature for the manufacture of self-reinforced polymer composites from fibres or tapes of different polymers, and so exploit the fibre or tape performance in a commercial material or product.
- Publication
Advances in Polymer Science, 2012, p1
- ISSN
0065-3195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/12_2011_159