Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 4

14 Experimental Investigation of Free-Field Implosion of Filament Wound Composite Tubes ............ 109 M. Pinto and A. Shukla 15 Experimental Investigation of Bend-Twist Coupled Cylindrical Shafts ........................... 117 S. Rohde, P. Ifju, and B. Sankar 16 Processing and Opto-mechanical Characterization of Transparent Glass-Filled Epoxy Particulate Composites .......................................................... 125 Austin B. Branch and Hareesh V. Tippur 17 Study of Influence of SiC and Al2O3 as Reinforcement Elements in Elastomeric Matrix Composites ................................................................... 129 D. Zaimova, E. Bayraktar, I. Miskioglu, D. Katundi, and N. Dishovsky 18 Manufacturing of New Elastomeric Composites: Mechanical Properties, Chemical and Physical Analysis ................................................................. 139 D. Zaimova, E. Bayraktar, I. Miskioglu, D. Katundi, and N. Dishovsky 19 The Effect of Particles Size on the Thermal Conductivity of Polymer Nanocomposite............... 151 Addis Tessema and Addis Kidane 20 Curing Induced Shrinkage: Measurement and Effect of Micro-/Nano-Modified Resins on Tensile Strengths .................................................................. 157 Anton Khomenko, Ermias G. Koricho, and Mahmoodul Haq 21 Graphene Reinforced Silicon Carbide Nanocomposites: Processing and Properties ................. 165 Arif Rahman, Ashish Singh, Sriharsha Karumuri, Sandip P. Harimkar, Kaan A. Kalkan, and Raman P. Singh 22 Experimental Investigation of the Effect of CNT Addition on the Strength of CFRP Curved Composite Beams ...................................................... 177 M.A. Arca, I. Uyar, and D. Coker 23 Mechanical and Tribological Performance of Aluminium Matrix Composite Reinforced with Nano Iron Oxide (Fe3O4) ................................................. 185 E. Bayraktar, M.-H. Robert, I. Miskioglu, and A. Tosun Bayraktar 24 Particle Templated Graphene-Based Composites with Tailored Electro-mechanical Properties .......................................................... 193 Nicholas Heeder, Abayomi Yussuf, Indrani Chakraborty, Michael P. Godfrin, Robert Hurt, Anubhav Tripathi, Arijit Bose, and Arun Shukla 25 Novel Hybrid Fastening System with Nano-additive Reinforced Adhesive Inserts ................... 199 Mahmoodul Haq, Anton Khomenko, and Gary L. Cloud viii Contents

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