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Characterisation of Curing of Vinyl Ester Resin in an Industrial Pultrusion Process: Influence of Die Temperature
18/09/2023 -
Pultrusion is a high-volume manufacturing process for Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites. It requires careful tuning and optimisation of process parameters to obtain the maximum production...
Built-Up Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP) Profiles with Improved Shear Performance for FRP–Concrete Hybrid Section
09/09/2023 -
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)–concrete hybrid sections, composed of FRP profiles and a concrete slab, have gathered attention in construction due to their lightweight, easy...
Effects of Additives on the Mechanical and Fire Resistance Properties of Pultruded Composites
29/08/2023 -
Under high temperatures, fiber-reinforced polymers are destroyed, releasing heat, smoke, and harmful volatile substances. Therefore, composite structural elements must have sufficient fire resistance...
Investigation of Helix-Pultruded CFRP Rebar Geometry Variants for Carbon-Reinforced Concrete Structures
03/08/2023 -
Carbon concrete is a new, promising class of materials in the construction industry. This corrosion-resistant reinforcement material leads to a reduction in the concrete cover required for medial...
The Reduction Factor of Pultrude Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polyester Composite Cross-Arm: A Comparative Study on Mathematical Modelling for Life-Span Prediction
29/07/2023 -
This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation of pultruded composite glass fibre-reinforced polymer (pGFRP) cross-arms subjected to flexural creep behaviour to assess their...
Sustainable Pultruded Sandwich Profiles with Mycelium Core
28/07/2023 -
This research focuses on exploring the potential of mycelium as a sustainable alternative to wood or solid foam in pultruded glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP) sandwich profiles. The study...
Bio-Based Pultruded CFRP Laminates: Bond to Concrete and Structural Performance of Full-Scale Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams
12/07/2023 -
This paper presents an experimental study about the use of innovative bio-based pultruded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates for structural strengthening. The bio-based laminates were...
Comparative Structural Analysis of GFRP, Reinforced Concrete, and Steel Frames under Seismic Loads
09/07/2023 -
Fibre-reinforced polymer composites in general, and especially glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP), have increasingly been used in recent decades in construction. The advantages of GFRP as an...
A Mathematical Model of Flexural-Creep Behaviour for Future Service Expectancy of a GFRP Composite Cross-Arm with the Influence of Outdoor Temperature
06/07/2023 -
Exposure to high temperatures can damage GFRP laminates’ mechanical properties and, as a result, degrade their long-term performance, leading to rupture during their service life. Therefore,...
Continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite pultrusion with in situ polymerizable methyl methacrylate: A review
15/06/2023 -
Compared to thermosetting resins, thermoplastic polymers offer many advantages as fiber reinforced composite matrices, such as excellent toughness, superior corrosion resistance, weldability, and...
Multi-Scale Study on the Mechanical Properties of Pultruded GFRP Laminates
09/06/2023 -
This paper presents a method for multiscale damage prediction of pultruded fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composites. The representative volume units (RVEs) method was created to predict the...
Axial Compression Behaviour and Modelling of Pultruded Basalt-Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) Tubes
27/05/2023 -
Laminated fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes are increasingly used as compression members in large-span spatial structures due to their high bearing capacity, corrosion resistance, and superior...
Thermoplastic Pultrusion Process of Polypropylene/Glass Tapes
19/05/2023 -
The present work focuses on the pultrusion of pre-impregnated glass-reinforced polypropylene tapes. An appositely designed laboratory-scale pultrusion line, consisting of a heating/forming die and a...
Mechanical Behavior of Crimping Composite Post Insulator: Experimental and Simulation Study
13/05/2023 -
The composite post insulator composed of a large diameter mandrel and flange pressed by a one-time integral pultrusion has high strength and good toughness and is widely used in the existing flexible...
Recent Advances of GFRP Composite Cross Arms in Energy Transmission Tower: A Short Review on Design Improvements and Mechanical Properties
30/03/2023 -
Currently, pultruded glass fibre-reinforced polymer (pGFRP) composites have been extensively applied as cross-arm structures in latticed transmission towers. These materials were chosen for their...
Experimental and Simulative Analysis of the Pressure Development in a Closed Injection Pultrusion Process with Multiple Chamber Geometries
20/03/2023 -
The use of innovative higher-performance highly reactive resin systems requires an enhancement of the established method of fiber impregnation (open bath) towards closed resin-injection pultrusion...
Fatigue behavior of unidirectional fiber?reinforced pultruded composites with high volume fiber fraction
06/03/2023 -
Pultrusion is a high?volume manufacturing process for fiber?reinforced polymer (FRP) composites ensuring high strength and quality products. However, research studies are very limited on the fatigue...
Effect of Flame Treatment on Bonding Performance of GF/EP Pultrusion Sheets Used for VARI Process
02/03/2023 -
This paper presents an easy and low-cost flame treatment method to improve the bonding performance of GF/EP (Glass Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy) pultrusion plates, which are using widely for large size...
Mechanical failure analysis of pultrusion glass fiber pipe based on acoustic emission technology
28/01/2023 -
In this study, the mechanical properties and damage modes of pultruded glass fiber/unsaturated polyester composite square pipe for automotive parts were investigated. The pipe structure, fiber mass...
Compressive behaviour of concrete-filled multi-cell GFRP pultruded square columns reinforced with lattice-webs
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Experimental studies have generally confirmed the good mechanical performance of the pultruded tubes, while brittle buckling failure and low confining efficiency are still the problems to be...
Performance of Compression-free turnbuckle braces using partially fibered CFRP under cyclic load
22/02/2023 -
Turnbuckle braces have been widely used as the seismic-resistant member of steel structures. Being a very slender member, the compressive resistance capacity is not considered in the structural...
