Inorganic polymer cement paste was used as cleaner binder for the design of lightweight matrices as insulating envelopes and panels in building and construction industries.
In recent years, lightweight metal matrix composites (MMC) have received wider attention for their technological application, such as automotive parts etc.
Multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) have very attractive mechanical and thermal properties, e.g., elasticity, tensile strength, and high resistance to oxidation, and may be considered as ideal reinforcing agents in lightweight metal matrix composites.
The compressive and flexural strength of ECC was found to decrease with using HGM, although some lightweight ECC matrixes were deemed viable.
Lightweight metal-matrix composites (MMC) are being applied in many fields such as aerospace and automotive, where detailed knowledge about their elastic and inelastic properties is required to make optimal design of the component.
This finding, combined with various abstract volumetric and radar plots, will not only shed light on decoupling the complex role of structure and materials on mechanical performance and their trends, but provides important guidelines for designing lightweight staggered platelet-matrix composites while ensuring the best (balance) of their mechanical properties.
Composites with an aluminium and aluminium alloy matrix are lightweight engineering materials for applications in aircraft, defence and automotive industries.
Glass fiber reinforced polymer, (GFRP) is a type of fiber reinforced composites that combine the continuous high strength reinforcing fiber material and lightweight properties of polymeric matrix, thus offers an alternative solution for those problems.
Owe to their lubricious nature, these carbonous materials have attracted researchers to synthesize lightweight self-lubricating metal matrix nanocomposites with superior mechanical and tribological properties for several applications in automotive and aerospace industries.
