Advanced Technology for Design and Fabrication of Composite Materials and Structures: Applications to the Automotive, Marine, Aerospace and Construction Industry / Edition 1

by George C. Sih, Alberto Carpinteri, G. Surace

Overview

The last decade has seen a significant growth in the processing and fabrication of advanced composite materials. This volume contains the up-to-date contributions of those with working experience in the automotive, marine, aerospace and construction field.
Starting with modern technologies concerned with assessing the change in material microstructure in terms of the processing parameters, methodologies are offered to account for tradeoffs between the fundamental variables such as temperature and pressure that control the product quality. The book contains new ideas and data, not available in the open literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048145072
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/10/2010
Series:	Engineering Applications of Fracture Mechanics , #14
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Session I: Curing, Bonding and Modelling.- Towards decision making in knowledge-based systems for composite cure.- Adhesive bonding in construction technology.- Nonlinear fracture mechanics models for fibre reinforced materials.- Session II: Composite Fabrication Technology.- Modelling three-dimensional composites.- Design-fabrication-performance relationship of advanced textile structural composites.- Modelling of filament winding technology.- Session III: Structural Behavior of Composites.- Material anisotropy and work strain characterized by stationary values of strain energy density function.- Constitutive laws for fibre reinforced ceramics.- On the fiber-governed bimodular constitutive models.- Genetic algorithms for the design of composite panels.- Session IV: Composite Beams and Plates.- On computational strategies for composite laminates.- Some aspects in the structural modelling of composite laminates.- Transverse cracking in laminated composites.- Some global aspects of fibre reinforcement efficiency in concrete.- Failure behavior and structural design of concrete members reinforced with continuous fiber reinforcing materials.- Session V: Interfaces and Fracture.- Interface structure analysis and fracture behaviour of inorganic composites.- Advanced fibre composites with engineered interfaces.- Interface property tailoring for pseudo strain-hardening cementitious composites.- Session VI: Damage and Fracture.- Experimental determination of the fractal dimension of disordered fracture surfaces.- Damage characterization, damage growth validation and repair consideration of advanced aircraft composite structures.- Near tip measurement of environmental effects on opening and growth of cracks in particulate composites.- Fracture mechanics parameters influencing themechanical properties of concrete composites.- Session VII: Thermoplastic Composites.- Fundamental aspects in manufacturing of thermoplastic composite materials.- Economic manufacturing techniques for continuous fibrereinforced thermoplastics in aircraft and automotive applications.- Forming techniques of advanced thermoplastic composite materials.- Session VIII: Joint, Airframe and Engine.- Bolted joint strength of graphite/epoxy laminates subjected to biaxial loading conditions.- A parametric study of structural adhesive joints for aerospace applications.- Impact damage and residual strength of forward fuselage composite panel.- Application of metal matrix composites for supersonic aeroplane engines.