TY - BOOK ID - 135248380 TI - Discontinuous Fiber Composites, Volume II AU - Osswald, Tim AU - Kuhn, Christoph PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - fiber reinforced plastics KW - long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) KW - sliding plate rheometer KW - fiber microstructure KW - fiber orientation KW - direct fiber simulation KW - mechanistic model KW - fiber reinforced thermoplastics KW - modeling KW - short fiber reinforcement KW - process simulation KW - smoothed particle hydrodynamics KW - composite foams KW - closed cells KW - image processing KW - finite element analysis KW - polymer composites KW - long fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (LFTs) KW - core region KW - shell region KW - fiber length distribution (FLD) KW - selective laser sintering KW - recoating KW - PA6 KW - polyamide KW - glass KW - fibres KW - beads KW - orientation KW - recoating speed KW - layer thickness KW - energy density KW - pARD-RSC KW - short fiber reinforced KW - mechanistic modelling KW - Carbon nanotubes KW - CNTs KW - nanocomposites KW - electrical resistivity KW - conductivity KW - electric fields KW - computational modelling KW - compression moulding KW - moulding compounds KW - optimisation KW - wet laid KW - isotropic KW - tensile KW - carbon fiber KW - discontinuous KW - recycling KW - hybrid composites KW - polymer-matrix composites (PMCs) KW - thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer KW - glass fibers KW - long fiber reinforced plastics KW - fiber breakage KW - fiber length KW - additive tooling KW - additive manufacturing KW - rapid tooling KW - injection molding KW - polypropylene KW - long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics KW - fiber concentration KW - stereolithography KW - carbon fiber recycling KW - lightweight design KW - long fiber-reinforced thermoplastics KW - parameter-optimization KW - injection molding compounding KW - long fiber reinforced thermoplastics KW - fiber orientation models KW - calibration KW - discontinuous fiber composites (DFC) KW - compression molding KW - sheet molding compound (SMC) KW - carbon fiber sheet molding compound (CF-SMC) KW - randomly oriented strands (ROS) KW - computed tomography (CT) KW - direct fiber simulation (DFS) KW - prepreg platelet molding compound (PPMC) KW - tow-based discontinuous composite (TBDC) KW - plastics processing KW - composites KW - glass fiber KW - sheet molding compound KW - long fiber KW - fiber content KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135248380 AB - Discontinuous fiber-reinforced polymers have gained importance in transportation industries due to their outstanding material properties, lower manufacturing costs and superior lightweight characteristics. One of the most attractive attributes of discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites is the ease with which they can be manufactured in large numbers, using injection and compression molding processes. The main aim of this Special Issue is to collect various investigations focused on the processing of discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites and the effect that processing has on fiber orientation, fiber length and fiber density distributions throughout the final product. Papers presenting investigations on the effect that fiber configurations have on the mechanical properties of the final composite products and materials were welcome in the Special Issue. Researchers who model and simulate processes involving discontinuous fiber composites as well as those performing experimental studies involving these composites were welcomed to submit papers. The authors were encouraged to present new models, constitutive laws, and measuring and monitoring techniques to provide a complete framework on these groundbreaking materials and to facilitate their use in different engineering applications. ER -