Advanced fibres

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Textile materials can be used in moist wound management as fibres themselves (advanced fibres such as alginate and chitosan fibres), or conventional/advanced fibres can be modified or coated with various substances such as honey or hydrogels to obtain special properties such as ultra-absorbency, drag release, etc. In general, textiles used in wound-dressing products come in all possible forms, including fibres, nanofibres, filaments, yarns, and woven/knitted/non-woven and composite materials. 

F. L. Matthews, G. A. O. Davies, D. Hitchings and C. Soutis Mechanical testing of advanced fibre composites... 

Primitive reinforced plastics products were known in the 1920s and 1930s, but the more advanced fibre reinforced materials we know today only became significant commercially as structural materials in the 1950s, and even then, the more recent reinforcing fibres such as carbon/graphite, aramid (e.g. Kevlar , Twaron ) and polyethylene (e.g. Dyneema ) fibres were all still completely unknown. The great majority of reinforced plastics articles we use today have been manufactured since 1975. 

Figure 17.43 Short beam shear test showing test configuration. Source Reprinted from Course on Mechanicai Testing of Advanced Fibre Composites, University of London, imperiai Coiiege, Sep 1995.

Course on Mechanical Testing of Advanced Fibre Composites, University of London, Imperial... 

Figure 22.2 Principal directions and stress components for an orthotropic material is the in-plane shear modulus as in plane No. 3 above.) Source Reprinted from University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Course entitled Mechanical Testing of Advanced Fibre Composites, 1995.

Note This chapter is an adapted version of Chapter 20 Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for sustainable energy technologies by L. C. Hollaway, originally published in Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for structural applications, ed. Jiping Bai, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2013,... 

The world of advanced fibre composites is changing rapidly. Technical and commercial battles take place in the composites arena, where big chemical companies have joined the show. The diagram shows a basic idea behind these involvements. The chemical industry thinks volume. Commodities and energy, products with a relatively low added value, have been their business over the past decades. Nowadays, however, High Tech is the message. Specialities with a high added value seem attractive. This is demonstrated by the amount of recent take overs of relatively... 

Johansen, B. S., Lystrup, A. and Jensen, M. T., CADPATH A complete program for the CAD-, CAE- and CAM-winding of advanced fibre composites . Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 1998, 77(1-3), 194. 

Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for structural applications... 

The mechanical properties of FRP composites are dependent upon the ratio of fibre and matrix material, the mechanical properties of the constituent materials, the fibre orientation in the matrix, and ultimately the processing and methods of fabrication, which are the subject of Part II. Chapters discuss prepreg processing, liquid composite moulding (LCM), filament winding processes and pultrusion of advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites. 

Resin infusion/liquid composite moulding (LCM) of advanced fibre-reinforced... 

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