Different nanocomposites silica-resin based were prepared and characterized in order to achieve a porous monolith that contains bentonite and allows the flow of aqueous systems. The bentonite used to prepare the nanocomposites ...

Polymeric foams are cell structures (porous microstructures) that have been frequently made from synthetic polymers for use in the development of food packaging. Due to the problems concerning the environmental impact ...

This chapter presents the composite materials applied to water current turbine (WCT) hydrokinetic turbines. Here will be briefly described the features of these turbines, the fluid-dynamic behavior of the rotor, and its ...

The development of food nano-packaging made mainly from composite materials (biopolymers, nanoclays, and bionanocomposites) has brought great interest globally, as these materials have been shown to be able to maintain the ...

This work describes an easy to use constitutive model able to predict the mechanical behavior of polymer matrix particulate composites at temperatures above the glass transition temperature Tg. This model was basedon both ...

This work investigates the accuracy and performance of a FE2 multi-scale implementation used to predict the behavior of composite materials. The equations are formulated assuming the small deformations solid mechanics ...

Nowadays, conventional materials have been progressively replaced by composite materials in a wide variety of applications. Particularly, fiber reinforced composite laminates are widely used. The appropriate design of ...

In this paper we present an extension of the linear elastic lattice model for anisotropic materials previously developed by the authors. This approach takes into consideration damage evolution in composite materials by ...