Introduction To Composite Materials Design

Presenting a wealth of completely revised examples and new information, Introduction to Composite Materials Design, Second Edition greatly improves on the bestselling first edition. It incorporates state-of-the-art advances in knowledge and design methods that have taken place over the last 10 years, yet maintains the distinguishing features and vital content of the original. New material in this second edition: Introduces new background topics, including design for reliability and fracture mechanics Revises and updates information on polymer matrices, modern fibers (e.g., carbon nanotubes, Basalt, Vectran) and fiber forms such as textiles/fabrics Includes new information on Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) Incorporates major advances in prediction of unidirectional-lamina properties Reworks sections on material failure, including the most advanced prediction and design methodologies, such as in situ strength and Mohr-Coulomb criterion, etc. Covers all aspects of preliminary design, relegating finite element analysis to a separate textbook Discusses methodology used to perform damage mechanics analysis of laminated composites accounting for the main damage modes: longitudinal tension, longitudinal compression, transverse tension, in-plane shear, and transverse compression Presents in-depth analysis of composites reinforced with plain, twill, and satin weaves, as well as with random fiber reinforcements Expands the analysis of thin walled beams with newly developed examples and MATLAB® code Addresses external strengthening of reinforced-concrete beams, columns, and structural members subjected to both axial and bending loads The author distributes 78 fully developed examples throughout the book to illustrate the application of presented analysis techniques and design methodology, making this textbook ideally suited for self-study. Requiring no more than senior undergraduate-level understanding of math and mechanics, it remains an invaluable tool for students in the engineering disciplines, as well as for self-studying, practicing engineers.

This edition has been greatly enlarged and updated to provide both scientists and engineers with a clear and comprehensive understanding of composite materials. In describing both theoretical and practical aspects of their production, properties and usage, the book crosses the borders of many disciplines. Topics covered include: fibres, matrices, laminates and interfaces; elastic deformation, stress and strain, strength, fatigue crack propagation and creep resistance; toughness and thermal properties; fatigue and deterioration under environmental conditions; fabrication and applications. Coverage has been increased to include polymeric, metallic and ceramic matrices and reinforcement in the form of long fibres, short fibres and particles. Designed primarily as a teaching text for final-year undergraduates in materials science and engineering, this book will also interest undergraduates and postgraduates in chemistry, physics, and mechanical engineering. In addition, it will be an excellent source book for academic and technological researchers on materials.

The third edition of Introduction to Composite Materials Design is a practical, design-oriented textbook aimed at students and practicing engineers learning analysis and design of composite materials and structures. Readers will find the third edition to be both highly streamlined for teaching, with new comprehensive examples and exercises emphasizing design, as well as complete with practical content relevant to current industry needs. Furthermore, the third edition is updated with the latest analysis techniques for the preliminary design of composite materials, including universal carpet plots, temperature dependent properties, and more. Significant additions provide the essential tools for mastering Design for Reliability as well as an expanded material property database.

A widely used basic text by two recognized authorities. A unified and disciplined approach; advanced concepts reduced to easy-to-use charts, formulas and numerical examples.

Responding to the need for a single reference source on the design and applications of composites, Composite Materials: Design and Applications, Second Edition provides an authoritative examination of the composite materials used in current industrial applications and delivers much needed practical guidance to those working in this rapidly d

This book balances introduction to the basic concepts of the mechanical behavior of composite materials and laminated composite structures. It covers topics from micromechanics and macromechanics to lamination theory and plate bending, buckling, and vibration, clarifying the physical significance of composite materials. In addition to the materials covered in the first edition, this book includes more theory-experiment comparisons and updated information on the design of composite materials.

Smart Composites: Mechanics and Design addresses the current progress in the mechanics and design of smart composites and multifunctional structures. Divided into three parts, it covers characterization of properties, analyses, and design of various advanced composite material systems with an emphasis on the coupled mechanical and non-mechanical behaviors. Part one includes analyses of smart materials related to electrically conductive, magnetostrictive nanocomposites and design of active fiber composites. These discussions include several techniques and challenges in manufacturing smart composites and characterizing coupled properties, as well as the analyses of composite structures at various length and time scales undergoing coupled mechanical and non-mechanical stimuli considering elastic, viscoelastic (and/or viscoplastic), fatigue, and damage behaviors. Part two is dedicated to a higher-scale analysis of smart structures with topics such as piezoelectrically actuated bistable composites, wing morphing design using macrofiber composites, and multifunctional layered composite beams. The analytical expressions for characterization of the smart structures are presented with an attention to practical application. Finally, part three presents recent advances regarding sensing and structural health monitoring with a focus on how the sensing abilities can be integrated within the material and provide continuous sensing, recognizing that multifunctional materials can be designed to both improve and enhance the health-monitoring capabilities and also enable effective nondestructive evaluation. Smart Composites: Mechanics and Design is an essential text for those interested in materials that not only possess the classical properties of stiffness and strength, but also act as actuators under a variety of external stimuli, provide passive and active response to enable structural health monitoring, facilitate advanced nondestructive testing strategies, and enable shape-changing and morphing structures.

Presenting a new set of 158 solved problems and projects to supplement the Examples and Exercises available in the textbook Introduction to Composite Materials Design-THIRD edition from CRC Press (2018). This is a companion to that textbook, with frequent cross-referencing guiding the reader to the equations, figures, tables, and specific sections of the textbook relevant for understanding every part of the solution to each of the problems. This workbook does not contain solutions for the Exercises at the end of the chapters in the textbook. Instead, this workbook offers a completely new set of problems, accompanied by detailed step-by-step solutions. These include additional explanations, new figures, and new references to popular design handbooks, material property data, and other sources from the literature. As well as solved problems, this workbook features several complete term-paper ideas in Chapters 2 (Materials) and 3 (Processing). Each idea provides a brief introduction to the solution of each term-paper, and a few citations as a starting point for further study. The Appendix contains a number of project ideas challenging enough to be assigned as semester-long team projects.At the end of each chapter, additional challenge exercises provide an additional opportunity for the reader to master the subject. Most problems are solved by hand, showing every step, with all numerical values substituted into equations from the textbook, ending with the numerical answer to the problem. Wherever computer code is helpful for completing the calculations, the code has been written and displayed using the free, open source language Scilab(TM), similar to MATLAB(R). A few problems are also solved using the free on-line application CADEC (http://cadec-online.com).The THIRD edition of the textbook "Introduction to Composite Materials Design (2018)" implements a number of additions and changes with respect to the second edition. The sign of bending moment is reversed to agree with the standard Mechanics of Materials convention, so all problems involving moment and curvature have been updated. The numbering of Equations, Sections, and Tables are updated. Each table that was landscape in the second edition is now split into two tables to make it easier to read the eBook version of the textbook in portrait mode, so tables numbering has changed significantly. New topics have been added such as Basis Values, Temperature-Dependent Properties, Universal Carpet Plots (in three chapters), and many more, requiring new Problems in this WorkBook. Some equations are rewritten to simplify numerical computations, and those changes are reflected in this WorkBook. In summary, one cannot use the old WorkBook with the third edition of the textbook. Furthermore, this edition has more problems, more Scilab code, and more thorough explanations of the solutions.