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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering· 2020Q2· Review

Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review

Felice Rubino, Antonio Nisticò, Fausto Tucci, Pierpaolo Carlone

Short summary

Fiber reinforced composites offer significant benefits for marine applications, with recent advances enabling their use in ships, offshore oil and gas, marine renewable energy, and underwater repairs.

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  • Fiber reinforced composites are suitable for marine environments due to resistance to wind, waves, tides, and saltwater.
  • Composites offer potential benefits for replacing traditional materials in marine components like ship hulls and propeller blades.
  • Recent advances cover applications in ships, offshore oil and gas, marine renewable energy, and underwater repairs.

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Abstract

Components and structures working in the marine environment are exposed to high stresses attributable to the action of wind, waves, and tides. Moreover, they have to face hostile and severe environmental conditions during their lifetime, being placed in the splash zone if not even submerged in saltwater. The application of polymer composites in marine systems has been the focus of intensive studies in the last decades, highlighting potential benefits given by the replacement of several components, such as ship hulls, propeller blades, wind, and tidal turbine blades, to cite but a few. The present paper reports the latest advances in this area, addressing the applications of advanced composites in ships and ship components, offshore oil and gas composites, marine renewable energy and underwater repairing.

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Field: Mechanics of Materials

Mechanics of MaterialsEngineering