Hybrid composite materials

Abstract

The most important criteria for the effective use of polymer composite materials are their life durability, such as fatigue and long-time strength, crack propagation resistance, plasticity reserve at long-term loading, resistance to impact loads, maintainability of articles therefrom, etc. The multifunctionality of the material is of prime importance: the combination of high elastic and strength properties with optimal thermophysical ones, radio-engineering indices, resistance to combustion, low smoke emission, non-toxicity and other specific characteristics. The diverse and contradictory requirements for modern composite materials has brought to the forefront the very complex problem of developing new types of composite materials, in which a combination of reinforcing layers from two or more types of fibres — the so-called hybrid composite materials — is used. Polymer hybrid composite materials (PHCM) have found the widest application to the present time.