ReviewPolymers2026
Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Automotive Powertrain Components: A Comprehensive Review of Material Systems, Performance Requirements, and Functional Design Strategies.
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- Friction and Wear Behaviors of PEEK/h-BN/SCF Composites Under Dry and Starved Oil Lubrications.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites represent promising lightweight materials for automotive powertrain systems, where increasing demands for weight reduction, energy efficiency, and emission reduction are driving the replacement of conventional metallic components. However, automotive powertrain environments expose CFRP materials to elevated temperatures, cyclic mechanical loading, chemical exposure, and tribological interactions, creating complex degradation conditions that significantly influence long-term durability and reliability. This review systematically analyzes CFRP composites for automotive powertrain applications, focusing on the relationship between operational requirements, material selection, reinforcement architecture, manufacturing technologies, and degradation mechanisms. High-performance thermoplastic systems such as CF/PEEK, CF/PPS, and CF/PEKK are critically compared with conventional thermoset composites. CF/PEEK systems demonstrate superior thermomechanical stability, maintaining significant mechanical performance at temperatures approaching 250 °C and tensile strengths of approximately 1400-1600 MPa, whereas CF/PPS composites provide a more economically efficient compromise between thermal resistance, chemical stability, manufacturability, and recyclability for medium-temperature applications. The review further analyzes dominant degradation mechanisms, including creep deformation, fatigue damage, delamination, fibre-matrix interface degradation, and tribological wear. CFRP degradation is shown to result from the interaction of multiple coupled mechanisms rather than from isolated material failure modes. Tribological wear rates typically range from 10
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