Research on Self-healing Composite Materials

DOI

10.2991/meic-15.2015.99How to use a DOI?

Keywords

smart materials; composite materials; repairing mechanism; intrinsic self-healing; external self-healing

Abstract

In the using of materials, kinds of injury which is sometimes difficult to repair or too costly to repair may appear in the surface and interior, which will shorten the life of the materials. Self-healing technology can be used to improve material reliability and extend the service life, so composite materials with self-healing capability become an important research content of smart materials. Self-healing materials can perform self-diagnosis after suffered from external forces and repair the crack or damage in a certain degree. According to the healing agents applied or not in the self-healing process, self-healing methods in polymer materials can be classified into extrinsic self-healing and intrinsic self-healing. Based on the latest research achievements, several typical extrinsic self-healing methods are summarized, including microcapsule self-healing, hollow-fiber self-healing and microcapsule self-healing. Several repairing mechanisms, self-healing system characteristic, existing problems and present research status are elaborated. Future research on self-healing materials is prospected, optimizing and developing new healing agents system in order to improve the self-healing efficiency and realizing the true smart materials.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peng Li
AU  - Tian Zou
AU  - Yuan Liu
AU  - Yuhua Wang
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Research on Self-healing Composite Materials
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 427
EP  - 430
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meic-15.2015.99
DO  - 10.2991/meic-15.2015.99
ID  - Li2015/04
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