Over the past few decades, there has been a constant pursuit for lightweight and high-
performance energy absorption structures and materials in automobiles, trains, ships …

Pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite is expected to be widely applied for civil
infrastructures due to its advantages of lightweight, anti-corrosion, and industrial …

Engineering structures are often subjected to the conditions of cyclic-loading, which onsets
material fatigue, detrimentally affecting the service-life and damage tolerance of components …

The hydropower sector is currently experiencing several technological developments. New
technologies and practices are emerging to make hydropower more flexible and more …

Materials play a huge role in the shaping and development of human civilization. The need
for materials started from the early stone-age where man needed fire to keep him warm and …

A systematic investigation was carried out in this work to evaluate the effect of seawater
ageing on the mechanical properties of different composites manufactured with three types …

Fibre-reinforced polymeric composites (FRPC), having better corrosion resistance, higher
strength-to-weight, and modulus-to-weight ratios, are widely utilised in automotive, wind …

One of the major challenges in off-shore tidal and wave energy devices is the ageing of
these structures in the hostile marine environment, which limits their operating life. In this …

Adhesive bonding techniques have been widely used and studied in automobile industry,
enabling to join dissimilar materials, such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) …

This study comprises the investigation on the effects of elevated temperatures (up to 900° C)
on the reinforcement mechanism of recycled carbon fiber (rCF) based cement composites. A …