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Paul Murdy, Scott Hughes, David A. Miller, Francisco J. Presuel-Moreno, George T. Bonheyo, Budi Gunawan and Bernadette A. Hernandez-Sanchez
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites have been highlighted as ideal candidates for structural applications in marine renewable energy devices, such as tidal turbines and wave energy converters. It is well understood that harsh marine environments can caus...
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Claudia Barattini, Luca Dimauro, Angelo Domenico Vella and Alessandro Vigliani
In recent years, significant improvements in the design of leg blade prosthetics have been carried out. After several advances in material and topological optimisations, sport-purpose feet prosthetics have reached high-level performances, allowing athlet...
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Khalil Deghoum, Mohammed Taher Gherbi, Hakim S. Sultan, Adnan N. Jameel Al-Tamimi, Azher M. Abed, Oday Ibraheem Abdullah, Hamza Mechakra and Ali Boukhari
In this article, the model of a 5 kW small wind turbine blade is developed and improved. Emphasis has been placed on improving the blade?s efficiency and aerodynamics and selecting the most optimal material for the wind blade. The QBlade software was use...
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Yacong Hou, Yubo Liu, Lei Chen, Ding Weng, Yuan Ma, Yadong Yu, Yang Wu and Jiadao Wang
Smart surfaces with controllable friction have generated considerable attention lately. However, most composites prepared with traditional fillers cannot achieve ?real-time? friction conversion. Herein, a new smart surface was designed to achieve differe...
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Anton Hadar, Andrei-Daniel Voicu, Florin Baciu, Daniel Vlasceanu, Daniela-Ioana Tudose and Stefan-Dan Pastrama
This paper describes the transition towards a composite structure, with the same overall aerodynamic characteristics, for a tail rotor blade of an IAR330 helicopter. The newly proposed structure of the composite blade is made of a carbon-roving spar embe...
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Akongnwi Nfor Ngwa, Birendra Chaudhary, Helio Matos and Arun Shukla
Experiments were conducted to investigate the dynamic buckling behavior of underwater hybrid composite tubes. The study focused on roll-wrapped hybrid layered glass-carbon fiber epoxy composite shells with a six-layer quasi-isotropic layup configuration....
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Peiqi Chen, Shuo Xu, Xiaojie Zhou and Dezong Xu
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Yixun Yu, Mengmeng Liang and Yunfeng Pan
Epoxy coatings provide an economical and practical solution for combating steel corrosion. However, epoxy coatings have poor conductivity, resulting in the accumulation of electrostatic charges. The surface conductivity and anticorrosion properties of ep...
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Sijiao Wang, Kaiming Cao, Guanwei Wang, Mengmeng Chen and Hongxi Wang
Epoxy resin is one of the most widely used thermosetting polymers and commonly applied in power electronics field. The intrinsic properties of epoxy can be improved by the introduction of inorganic filler, thus fabricating a composite material. In this p...
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Muhammad Ayaz Ahmad, Hamza Rafiq, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Sabih Ahmad Khan, Syed Tauqeer ul Islam Rizvi and Taimur Ali Shams
The design and development of high-strength and low-weight composite landing gear struts is still a challenge in today?s world. In this study, a selection methodology for fiber-reinforced composite material for retractable main landing gear struts for sp...
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