Advanced lightweight composite shells: Manufacturing, mechanical characterizations and applications

Y Gao, Z Li, X Wei, Y Du, Z Zhou, J **ong - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of modern aeronautical and aerospace industries has greatly been
accelerated by the upgradation of advanced lightweight architecture materials. As a …

Recent progresses in lightweight carbon fibre reinforced lattice cylindrical shells

M Li, H Zhu, C Lai, W Bao, H Han, R Lin, W He… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to their high strengths and stiffnesses, carbon fibre reinforced composites (CFRC) are
widely used in aerospace engineering for lightweight structural designs. The introduction of …

Optimization of CFRP drilling process: a review

W Zhu, H Fu, F Li, X Ji, Y Li, F Bai - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Springer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is a lightweight composite material with high
mechanical properties, which has been applied in many fields. Especially in the aerospace …

Robot-assisted conformal additive manufacturing for continuous fibre-reinforced grid-stiffened shell structures

G Zhang, Y Wang, Z Chen, X Xu, K Dong… - Virtual and Physical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The advents in continuous fibre-reinforced polymer additive manufacturing (CFRP-AM)
present unprecedented opportunities for the rapid development of next-generation high …

Fabrication and bending performance of ultra-low-density all-composite honeycomb sandwich shell based on stretching process

Z Chu, X Chen, L Wu, G Yu, Q Wu - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
A sandwich shell with an ultra-low-density honeycomb core was designed and
manufactured from a carbon-fibre prepreg via a stretching process. Subsequently, the …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication and failure mechanisms of all-composite honeycomb sandwich cylinder under the axial compression

Z Li, Y Gao, P Xue, X Wei, Y Du, Y Wang… - Composites Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Winding-based method, an innovative technology, is proposed to successfully fabricate the
all-composite honeycomb sandwich cylinder (CHSC). Excellent mechanical properties of …

Fabrication and failure mechanisms of ultralight all-CFRP sandwich cylinders under axial compression

Z Chu, R Wang, S Tian, C Wang, L Wu, Q Wu, G Yu - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultralight all-CFRP honeycomb sandwich cylinders were fabricated using a stretching
process. Subsequently, critical failure loads corresponding to five typical failure modes of the …

[HTML][HTML] Pultrusion-winding: A novel fabrication method for coreless wound fiber-reinforced thermoset composites with distinct cross-section

P Mindermann, MU Witt, GT Gresser - Composites Part A: Applied Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bar frameworks integrally manufactured by coreless filament winding are often the superior
design solution for voluminous component shapes with distinctive load cases. Numerical …

Finite-element modelling, analysis and design of anisogrid composite lattice spoke of an umbrella-type deployable reflector of space antenna

EV Morozov, AV Lopatin, AA Khakhlenkova - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Practical design procedure of a new configuration of anisogrid composite lattice spoke of an
umbrella-type deployable reflector of space antenna is presented in the paper. The spoke …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of resin impregnation using self-sensing of carbon fibers

JH Kim, ZJ Wang, KE Kwon, WS Shim, SB Yang… - Polymer Testing, 2024 - Elsevier
The wettability of fiber-reinforced composites plays a crucial role in both mechanical
properties and the efficiency of the manufacturing process. This is particularly significant in …