Structural Health Monitoring of Biocomposites, Fibre-Reinforced Composites and Hybrid Composites

Structural Health Monitoring of Biocomposites, Fibre-reinforced Composites and Hybrid Composites provides detailed information on failure analysis, mechanical and physical properties, structural health monitoring, durability and life prediction, modelling of damage processes of natural fiber, synthetic fibers, and natural/natural, and natural/synthetic fiber hybrid composites. It provides a comprehensive review of both established and promising new technologies currently under development in the emerging area of structural health monitoring in aerospace, construction and automotive structures. In addition, it describes SHM methods and sensors related to specific composites and how advantages and limitations of various sensors and methods can help make informed choices.

Written by leading experts in the field, and covering composite materials developed from different natural fibers and their hybridization with synthetic fibers, the book's chapters provide cutting-edge, up-to-date research on the characterization, analysis and modelling of composite materials.

Contains contributions from leading experts in the fieldDiscusses recent progress on failure analysis, SHM, durability, life prediction and the modelling of damage in natural fiber-based composite materialsCovers experimental, analytical and numerical analysisProvides detailed and comprehensive information on mechanical properties, testing methods and modelling techniques

1. Introduction 2. The effect of fibre loading on flexural strength, thermal and dynamic mechanical properties of banana - pineapple leaf fibre (PALF) - woven glass hybrid biocomposite 3. Impact and Acoustic Emission Monitoring for Composite materials 4. Biomass valorization for better aviation environmental impact through bio-composites and aviation bio-fuel 5. Structural health monitoring in aerospace composites 6. DIC as digitised measurement tool to predict fatigue lifecycle of a newly produced CFRP aircraft part with presence of visible defects 7. Recent advances and trends in Structural health monitoring 8. Structural health monitoring of fiber polymer composites 9. Corrosion detection for natural/synthetic/textile fiber polymer composites 10. Applications of impedance spectroscopy for damage monitoring in polymer composites 11. Performance of conventionally trained aircraft composite panel drillers versus Immersive Virtual Reality-Haptic trained drillers 12. Maintenance and monitoring of composites 13. Synthetic / Natural fibre properties of fire designated zone of an aircraft engine – A Structural Health Monitoring Approach 14. Aerogel-based Thermally Sprayed Coatings for Aero-Propulsion System: A Feasibility Study based on Structural Health Monitoring Approach 15. Health monitoring of synthetic/natural woven fiber polymer composites 16. X-Ray computed tomography analysis of damage evolution in carbon fibre reinforced laminated composites 17. Profiling of damage detection by using electromagnetic plunger on aircraft composite structure 18. Fracture surface morphologies in understanding of composite structural behavior 19. An overview on role of structural health monitoring in various sectors 20. Fracture surface morphologies in understanding of composite structural behavior