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ReviewPolymers2019

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing, Properties, and Applications.

Dipen Kumar Rajak, Durgesh D Pagar, Pradeep L Menezes, Emanoil Linul

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Review in Polymers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 242 papers.

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242citing papers in PubMed
66.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

242 citing papers in PubMed, 1,538 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Dipen Kumar RajakDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sandip Institute of Technology & Research Centre, Nashik 422212, India. dipen.pukar@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4469-2654
Durgesh D PagarDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik 422003, India. durgeshpagar90@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2042-9069
Pradeep L MenezesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA. pmenezes@unr.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8030-8504
Emanoil LinulDepartment of Mechanics and Strength of Materials, Politehnica University of Timisoara, 300 222 Timisoara, Romania. emanoil.linul@upt.ro.ORCID 0000-0001-9090-8917
Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad · INPolytechnic University of Timişoara · ROUniversity of Nevada, Reno · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Composites have been found to be the most promising and discerning material available in this century. Presently, composites reinforced with fibers of synthetic or natural materials are gaining more importance as demands for lightweight materials with high strength for specific applications are growing in the market. Fiber-reinforced polymer composite offers not only high strength to weight ratio, but also reveals exceptional properties such as high durability; stiffness; damping property; flexural strength; and resistance to corrosion, wear, impact, and fire. These wide ranges of diverse features have led composite materials to find applications in mechanical, construction, aerospace, automobile, biomedical, marine, and many other manufacturing industries. Performance of composite materials predominantly depends on their constituent elements and manufacturing techniques, therefore, functional properties of various fibers available worldwide, their classifications, and the manufacturing techniques used to fabricate the composite materials need to be studied in order to figure out the optimized characteristic of the material for the desired application. An overview of a diverse range of fibers, their properties, functionality, classification, and various fiber composite manufacturing techniques is presented to discover the optimized fiber-reinforced composite material for significant applications. Their exceptional performance in the numerous fields of applications have made fiber-reinforced composite materials a promising alternative over solitary metals or alloys.

Indexed as

composite materialsfiber-reinforced polymernatural fiberssynthetic fibers

Identifiers

PMID31614875
PMCPMC6835861
OpenAlexW2979363123

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