Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating

<table>Configuration of the Surlyn/carbon fiber resistive heating sample modeled using finite-element method with boundary conditions. Model developed is validated for the sample on the left and used for predicting the temperature distribution with discrete bundles of carbon fibers.</table>

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Figure 11: Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating 