High-performance polymer composites

National Academy of Sciences-National Academy of Engineering-Institute of Medicine, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. "Report of the Research Briefing Panel on High-Performance Polymer Composites," m Research Briefings 1984. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1984. 

The number of such examples, however, is not high. In many other examples of advanced-performance materials, such as DuPont s Kevlar and Allied Signal s SPECTRA, the volume applications associated with system-for-system substitution has not yet occurred at a level necessary to pay back the development and commercialization costs already expended. High-performance ceramics is another area in which the early promise has yet to materialize. The consequences of Eckstut s life-cycle dynamics have been overcapacity and severe rationalization in high-performance carbon fiber businesses, some specialty alloy activities, and high-performance polymer composites. Thus, with critical technologies that involve advanced-performance materials, we need to better understand how to exploit their value in a commercially viable way. 

Given the modulus and strength values that have been predicted and measured for CNTs, they are potentially an ideal reinforced material for high performance polymer composites with outstanding specific modulus and specific strength with only low concentrations of CNTs (11,39-42). However, one issue of practical importance for nanocomposite is the separation and dispersion of the CNTs within the matrix,... 

Bathia.s, C., and Cagnasso. A. (1992). Application of X-ray tomography to the nondestructixe testing of high performance polymer composites. Damage Detection in Composite Materials. ASTM. STP 1128. pp. 35 54. 

In addition to the use of polymers to study fundamental concepts in mechanics, another driving force for the critical link between polymer science and mechanics has been use of polymers in applications. As the understanding of the physical nature of polymers increased and synthesis techniques matured, many polymers of widespread usage were developed. As these materials were employed in devices and structures, it was essential to analyze and understand from an engineering perspective the response of polymers to load and other environmental variables, such as temperature and moisture. As indicated earlier, today high performance polymer composites are used for critical load bearing applications as diverse as alpine skis and airframe parts, and thus the study of the mechanics of polymers as a structural material is an active and important area of research. Later sections in this text will deal explicitly with the viscoelastic nature of polymeric response and mathematical methods to analyze this behavior. 

Ito, T. (1990) High Performance Polymer Composites, Maruzen, Tokyo, p. 7 (in Japanese). 

Chen, J., Zhao, D., Jin, X., Wang, C., Wang, D., Ge, H., 2014. Modifying glass fibers with graphene oxide towards high-performance polymer composites. Composites Science Technology 97, 41—45. 

Table 2.2 Comparison of Mctirai and wear properties of HP-LCP with other high performance polymer composites, polyethtaethtaketone (PEEK) and polyimide (PI) at a pressure of 1 MPa and velocity of 1 m/s at low and high counterpart temperatures...

Bhowmik S, Bonin HW, Bui VT (2006) Modification of high performance polymer composite through high energy radiation and low pressure plasma for aerospace and space applications. J Appl Polym Sci... 

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