Abstract: A model for analyzing the interfacial conditions of a porous web moving over a cylindrical rigid guide is presented. This problem is different from the classical foil bearing problem due to ...

Abstract: It is with great pleasure that we compiled the Special Issue Recent Advances in Micro, Nano, and Cellular Composite Materials of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (JEMT). In ...

Abstract: Effect of fiber volume fraction on occurrence, morphology, and spatial distribution of microvoids in resin transfer molded E-glass/epoxy composites is investigated. Three disk-shaped center-gated ...

Abstract: The state of nanoclay dispersion in a molded epoxy disk and its effects on the thermomechanical properties of the resulting nanocomposite are analyzed. A commercially available nanoclay, ...

Abstract: The common methods used to determine the diffusion coefficients of polymer composites are based on the solution of Fickian diffusion equation in one-dimensional (1D) rectangular domain. However, ...

Abstract: Performance of composite materials usually suffers from process-induced defects such as dry spots and microscopic voids. While effects of void content in molded composites have been studied ...

Abstract: The first part of this paper characterizes the effect of tooling and process parameters such as the length of distribution media used in vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) of ...