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Modeling And Simulation For Shape Memory Polymer Based Self-Healing Syntactic Foam, Wei Xu
Modeling And Simulation For Shape Memory Polymer Based Self-Healing Syntactic Foam, Wei Xu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Syntactic foams, renowned for their low density and high mechanical properties, are enjoying continuing growth in various civilian and military sectors. However, like laminated composites, foam cored structures are vulnerable to impact damages and suffering from inabilities in repairing macro-scale cracks. A self-healing mechanism for structural damage is genuinely desired. A recent development in self-healing structural damage is a two-step close then heal (CTH) scheme proposed by Li and Nettles [1] and elucidated by Li and Uppu [2], by mimicking the self-healing process of human skin. This concept has been further demonstrated in Nji and Li’s work [3] that a …