Key Features
- Detailed physical and mathematical coverage of complex mechanics and analysis required in actual applications - not just standard homogeneous isotropic materials
- Environmental and manufacturing discussions enable practical implementation within manufacturing technology, experimental results, and design specifications.
- Discusses material behavior impacts in-depth such as nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, creep, structural nonlinearity enabling research and application of the special problems of material micro- and macro-mechanics
Description
Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements analyzes contemporary theoretical models at the micro- and macro levels of material structure. Its coverage of practical methods and approaches, experimental results, and optimization of composite material properties and structural component performance can be put to practical use by researchers and engineers.
The third edition of the book consists of twelve chapters progressively covering all structural levels of composite materials from their constituents through elementary plies and layers to laminates and laminated composite structural elements. All-new coverage of beams, plates and shells adds significant currency to researchers.
Composite materials have been the basis of many significant breakthroughs in industrial applications, particularly in aerospace structures, over the past forty years. Their high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios are the main material characteristics that attract the attention of the structural and design engineers. Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements helps ensure that researchers and engineers can continue to innovate in this vital field.
Readership
Graduate researchers and above studying composite mechanics. Practicing engineers in industry, including members of ASME, AIAA and SAE; aerospace and automotive engineers designing and analyze composite materials.
Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements, 3rd Edition
CONTENTS
Preface to the Third Edition
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Structural Materials
1.2 Composite Materials
1.3 References
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Mechanics of Solids
2.1 Stresses
2.2 Equilibrium Equations
2.3 Stress Transformation
2.4 Principal Stresses
2.5 Displacements and Strains
2.6 Transformation of Small Strains
2.7 Compatibility Equations
2.8 Admissible Static and Kinematic Fields
2.9 Constitutive Equations for an Elastic Solid
2.10 Formulations of the Problem
2.11 Variational Principles
2.12 References
Chapter 3 Mechanics of a Unidirectional Ply
3.1 Ply Architecture
3.2 Fiber-Matrix Interaction
3.3 Micromechanics of a Ply
3.4 Mechanical Properties of a Ply under Tension, Shear, and Compression
3.5 Hybrid Composites
3.6 Composites with High Fiber Fraction
3.7 Limitations of Phenomenological Ply Models
3.8 References
Chapter 4 Mechanics of a Composite Layer
4.1 Isotropic Layer
4.2 Unidirectional Orthotropic Layer
4.3 Unidirectional Anisotropic Layer
4.4 Orthogonally Reinforced Orthotropic Layer
4.5 Angle-Ply Orthotropic Layer
4.6 Layer Made by Angle-Ply Circumferential Winding
4.7 Fabric Layers
4.8 Lattice Layer
4.9 Spatially Reinforced Layers and Bulk Materials
4.10 References
Chapter 5 Mechanics of Laminates
5.1 Stiffness Coefficients of a Generalized Anisotropic Layer
5.2 Stiffness Coefficients of a Homogeneous Layer
5.3 Stiffness Coefficients of a Laminate
5.4 Symmetric Laminates
5.5 Engineering Stiffness Coefficients of Orthotropic Laminates
5.6 Quasi-Homogeneous Laminates
5.7 Quasi-Isotropic Laminates
5.8 Antisymmetric Laminates
5.9 Sandwich Structures
5.10 Coordinate of the Reference Plane
5.11 Stresses in Laminates
5.12 Example
5.13 References
Chapter 6 Failure Criteria and Strength of Laminates
6.1 Failure Criteria for an Elementary Composite Layer or Ply
6.2 Practical Recommendations
6.3 Examples
6.4 Allowable Stresses for Laminates Consisting of Unidirectional Plies
6.5 Progressive Failure
6.6 References
Chapter 7 Environmental, Special Loading, and Manufacturing Effects
7.1 Temperature Effects
7.2 Hydrothermal Effects and Aging
7.3 Time-Dependent Loading Effects
7.4 Manufacturing Effects
7.5 References
Chapter 8 Laminated Composite Beams
8.1 Basic Equations and Relationships
8.2 Bending of Laminated Beams
8.3 Buckling under Axial Compression
8.4 References
Chapter 9 Thin-Walled Composite Beams
9.1 Composite Beams with Closed Cross-Sectional Contour
9.2 Composite Beams with Open Cross-Sectional Contour
9.3 References
Chapter 10 Rectangular Composite Plates
10.1 Equations of the Plate Theory
10.2 Symmetrically Laminated Plates
10.3 Non-symmetrically Laminated Plates
10.4 References
Chapter 11 Circular Cylindrical Shells
11.1 Governing Equations
11.2 Stress State Independent on the Circumferential Coordinate
11.3 Stress State Independent on the Axial Coordinate
11.4 Applied Theories
11.4.3 Engineering Theory
11.5 Buckling of Cylindrical Shells
11.6 References
Chapter 12 Optimal Composite Structures
12.1 Optimal Fibrous Structures
12.2 Composite Laminates of Uniform Strength
12.3 Design of Composite Laminates under Strength Constraints
12.4 Design of Composite Laminates under Strength and Buckling
Constraints
12.5 Application to Optimal Composite Structures
12.6 References
Author Index
Subject Index
