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Buckling and vibration analysis of shape memory laminated composite beams under axially heterogeneous in-plane loads in the glass transition temperature region
Buckling and vibration study of the shape memory polymer composites (SMPC) across the glass transition temperature under heterogeneous loading...
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A New Hybrid LSTM-GRU Model for Fault Diagnosis of Polymer Gears Using Vibration Signals
Polymer gears have exhibited promising potential in power transmission due to their robust mechanical properties. However, expanding their use in...
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Development and kinetic evaluation of a low-cost temperature-sensitive shape memory polymer for 4-dimensional printing
4D printing has been evolving from traditional 3D printing in the past years as an enabling technology imparting additive manufacturing with...
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Hysteresis Modeling of Twisted-Coiled Polymer Actuators Using Long Short Term Memory Networks
Twisted-coiled polymer actuators (TCAs) are a new promising type of artificial muscles that is light-weight, low-cost and provides high stroke. This...
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Thermal Stability of Shape Memory Polymers, Polymer Blends, and Composites
This chapter will focus on the thermal analysis and interesting related properties of high performance shape memory polymers (SMPs), shape memory...
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Renewable Thermal Energy Storage in Polymer Encapsulated Phase-Change Materials: A Comprehensive Overview
An urgent need to resolve the unwanted climatic change and transition to renewable energy resources has driven significant development and research...
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Additive Manufacturing and Joining of Metal-Polymer/Composite Hybrid Structures in Aviation
In light of stringent environmental regulations, engineers and designers are under increasing pressure to reduce the structural weight of...
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Iron-Based Shape Memory Alloy (Fe-SMA) vs. CFRP for Prestressed Strengthening of Civil Metallic Structures
Iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) is a smart material that has been recently engineered and developed for civil engineering applications. The...
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Review and Challenges of Green Polymer-Based Nanocomposite Materials
The requirement for recyclable materials has arisen due to environmental degradation from non-biodegradable materials. Polymer materials have long...
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Shape recovery properties and load-carrying capacity of a 4D printed thick-walled kirigami-inspired honeycomb structure
Kirigami arts have provided a more promising method for building multiscale structures, which can shape two-dimensional (2D) sheets into...
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Improvement of impact resistance of plain-woven composite by embedding superelastic shape memory alloy wires
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have excellent mechanical properties, specifically, high specific stiffness and strength. However,...
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4D printing of personalized shape memory polymer vascular stents with negative Poisson’s ratio structure: A preliminary study
Four-dimensional (4D) printing, integrates transformation information into three-dimensional (3D)-printed structures, which means that 3D-printed...
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Eco-Friendly Conducting Polymer-Based Functionalized Nanocomposites Dedicated for Electrochemical Devices
Nanocomposite materials comprised of conjugated polymer and nanoparticles have been created to achieve the enhanced properties of conducting...
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Nonlocal Finite Element Implementation for Anisotropic Viscoplastic Gurson Model for Thermoplastic Polymer in ABAQUS
Strain softening and localization lead to spurious energy dissipation and size effect of load responses using FEA. The purpose of this paper is to...
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Ultrasonic Vibration-Induced Shape Memory Polymer (Polyurethane)/Graphene Nanoplatelets Composite
Ultrasonic vibration (UV)-induced shape memory polyurethane (PU) and composite containing 1 phr (part per hundred) graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were...
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Rheology of Shape-Memory Polymers, Polymer Blends, and Composites
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to the characteristics of switching from permanent shape to...
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A comprehensive review on 3D printing advancements in polymer composites: technologies, materials, and applications
3D printing is a constantly expanding technology that represents one of the most exciting and disruptive production possibilities available today....
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Mechanical Properties of Shape-Memory Polymers, Polymer Blends, and Composites
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) are widely employed in aerospace, biomedical, portable electronic devices, etc., where their multiple-shape capabilities...
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Microscopy of Shape Memory Polymers, Polymer Blends, and Composites
Contemporary microscopes can magnify almost everything that is invisible to the naked eye, down to the atomic level. Current classifications include...
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Shape estimation for a TPU-based multi-material 3D printed soft pneumatic actuator using deep learning models
Real-time proprioception presents a significant challenge for soft robots due to their infinite degrees of freedom and intrinsic compliance. Previous...