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## Meet the editors

Dr. Longbiao Li is a lecturer in the College of Civil Aviation, at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. His research focuses on the vibration, fatigue, damage, fracture, reliability, safety, and durability of aircraft and aero engines. He has 200 journal publications, 10 monographs, 4 edited books, 4 textbooks, 3 book chapters, 34 Chinese patents, 2 US patents, 2 Chinese software copyrights, and more than

30 refereed conference proceedings to his credit. He has been involved in different projects related to structural damage, reliability, and airworthiness design for aircraft and aero engines, supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China, COMAC Company, and AECC Commercial Aircraft Engine Company.

António Bastos Pereira has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Since 2000, he has been a professor and researcher at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he held management positions in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a director and researcher at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, University of Aveiro. His research focuses on the study of materials, including composites and

metals. He has 80 journal articles to his credit. Dr. Pereira has collaborated on thirty scientific research projects, having been the principal investigator for eighteen.

Alexandre Luiz Pereira has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Technology. He completed a postgraduate internship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Since 2014 he has been a professor and researcher at the Federal Center of Technological Education in Rio de Janeiro (CEFET/RJ). He is currently the coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering course at the CEFET/RJ Campus

Angra dos Reis. His main research areas are materials technology (structural and hybrid composites), hyperelastic materials, and adhesive joints.

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Preface

Composite materials are composed of two or more materials with different properties by physical or chemical methods on a macroscopic scale. The comprehensive performance of composite materials is better than that of the original constituent materials, thus meeting a variety of different requirements. Compared with traditional materials, composite materials possess high specific strength and modulus, good fatigue resistance,

designability, and other beneficial characteristics. This book examines the next generation of fiber-reinforced composites. It discusses their mechanical properties and experimental and numerical evaluation, the application of fiber-reinforced composites in civil engineering, and multifunction carbon nanotube-reinforced composites. Adhesive bonding is a recent technology that in many applications can replace engineering materials such as rivets and bolts and processes like welding. Adhesives have the advantage of being lightweight and cost-effective for many applications in aeronautics, renewable energy, mechanics, and more. This book provides a comprehensive overview of adhesives science

and technology, recent advances, and applications that use adhesive technology.

**Longbiao Li**

College of Civil Aviation,

Nanjing, PR China

**António B. Pereira**

University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

**Alexandre Luiz Pereira**

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

TEMA - Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation,

Federal Center of Technological Education in Rio de Janeiro (CEFET/RJ),
