ABSTRACT
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been used since the 1970s in a variety of engineering applications requiring materials with high stiffness/ weight and strength/weight ratios. Unfortunately, they can experience complex damage modes, ranging from delamination and fiber cracks in monolithic composites made with prepreg composites, to shear core failure in sandwich composites or, in woven composites, macroscale damage with various features (transverse cracks in fill, shear failure in warp, cracks in pure-matrix regions, and inter-ply and intra-ply delamination). Damage may be triggered by stress
CONTENTS
12.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 359 12.2 Fabrication of Strain-Sensitive Films ...................................................... 361
12.2.1 Layer-by-Layer Nanocomposite Films ........................................ 362 12.2.2 Spray-Deposited Nanocomposite Films .....................................364
