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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Materials and Manufacturing

  • 1st Edition - June 14, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Madhu Puttegowda, Sanjay M. R, Suchart Siengchin
  • Language: English

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Description

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Materials and Manufacturing systematically explores the essential concepts and latest advancements in fiber-reinforced polymer composites. This comprehensive book begins with an introduction to composite materials, progressing to detailed discussions on reinforcements, polymers, and innovative manufacturing techniques. It addresses characterization of these composites, environmental considerations, design and analysis, joining and repair, and their durability and performance. Each chapter contributes to a deeper understanding, from basic principles to sophisticated real-world applications. It is a valuable reference for researchers, material scientists, engineers, polymer chemists, and manufacturers invested in sustainable polymer composite materials.

Key features

  • Covers fundamental concepts and recent advances in the synthesis, processing, functionalization, characterization, and applications of fiber-reinforced polymer composites
  • Includes the latest developments in novel manufacturing methods across various industries
  • Contains case studies of real-world applications, including selection, fabrication and design, as well as sustainable production practices and disposal
  • Provides environmental and ecological aspects, regulations, standards, recycling, and lifecycle assessment
  • Discusses commercialization, economical, and societal aspects, and future prospects

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, polymer chemists, manufacturers, and all those working in the research and development of sustainable polymer composite materials

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Composite Materials

2. Reinforcements for Composite Materials

3. Polymers for Composite Materials

4. Manufacturing Methods for Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

5. Characterization of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

6. Environmental Considerations in Composite Materials

7. Design and Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

8. Joining and Repair of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

9. Durability and Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

10. Applications and Future Developments of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 3, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Madhu Puttegowda

Dr. Madhu Puttegowda is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, India. He received his B.E (Mechanical Engineering) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India in 2011, and then went on to achieve his MTech in Product Design and Manufacturing and Ph.D. (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Science) from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2020. His current research areas include natural fiber composites, polymer composites and advanced material technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Dean (Research) and Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, India

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Sanjay M. R

Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa is a Senior Research Scientist at King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand, as well as an 'Adviser within the office of the President for University Promotion and Development towards International Goals.' He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Engineers and a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) (India). In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of several international journals in the fields of materials science and composites. He serves on the review boards of over 100 international journals, as well as book proposals and international conferences. He has also presented research papers at national and international conferences and has written over 160 articles in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals indexed by SCI/Scopus, 6 editorial corners, 60 book chapters, one book, and 22 volumes as an Editor. Furthermore, one Thai patent and two Indian patents have been granted. He has spoken at a number of international conferences and seminars as a keynote speaker and as an invited speaker. Natural fiber composites, polymer composites, and advanced material technology are among his current research interests.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

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Suchart Siengchin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin is a former President of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok and currently serves as the Director of TechnoPark at the same university. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg, Germany in 1999, followed by an M.Sc. in Polymer Technology from the University of Applied Sciences Aalen in 2002, and another M.Sc. in Material Science from Erlangen-Nürnberg University in 2004. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institute for Composite Materials at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2008, including postdoctoral research at Kaiserslautern University and Purdue University's School of Materials Engineering. In 2016, he received his habilitation from Chemnitz University in Saxony, Germany. In 2024, he was honored as an Honorary Fellow by RWTH Aachen University. He has also served as a Lecturer in Production and Material Engineering at the Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, KMUTNB, and has been a full Professor and President of KMUTNB. He received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2010, 2012, and 2013 at KMUTNB. His research focuses on Polymer Processing and Composite Materials. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Science and Engineering Progress, a Q1 indexed journal on Scopus, and has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 editorial contributions, more than 100 book chapters, one authored book, and over 50 edited books. He has presented at more than 70 international and national conferences related to Materials Science and Engineering. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University for 2021- 2022, he received the National Excellence Researcher Award (Engineering and Research Industry) from Thailand's National Research Council in 2021, and has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2025 by Clarivate.

Affiliations and expertise
Former President of KMUTNB, and Director of KMUTNB Techno Park, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

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