Structural Integrity and Durability of Advanced Composites: Innovative Modelling Methods and Intelligent Design

  • 15h 1m
  • A. Hodzic, C. Soutis, P.W.R. Beaumont
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2015

Structural Integrity and Durability of Advanced Composites: Innovative Modelling Methods and Intelligent Design presents scientific and technological research from leading composite materials scientists and engineers that showcase the fundamental issues and practical problems that affect the development and exploitation of large composite structures.

As predicting precisely where cracks may develop in materials under stress is an age old mystery in the design and building of large-scale engineering structures, the burden of testing to provide "fracture safe design" is imperative. Readers will learn to transfer key ideas from research and development to both the design engineer and end-user of composite materials.

This comprehensive text provides the information users need to understand deformation and fracture phenomena resulting from impact, fatigue, creep, and stress corrosion cracking and how these phenomena can affect reliability, life expectancy, and the durability of structures.

  • Presents scientific and technological research from leading composite materials scientists and engineers that showcase fundamental issues and practical problems
  • Provides the information users need to understand deformation and fracture phenomena resulting from impact, fatigue, creep, and stress corrosion cracking
  • Enables readers to transfer key ideas from research and development to both the design engineer and end-user of composite materials

About the Authors

Dr Peter Beaumont is Reader in Engineering Materials at the Engineering Department in the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on the structure and properties of composite materials, polymers and ceramics, and he is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Applied Composite Materials.

Professor Soutis is Chair of Aeorspace Engineering, Director of the Aeorspace Research Institute and director of the Northwest Composites Centre (NCCEF) at Manchester University.

Prof. Alma Hodzic is Professor in Advanced Materials Technologies at the University of Sheffield, and Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science.

In this Book

  • Editors' Foreword
  • Foreword by Tony Kelly
  • Composite Micromechanics—From Carbon Fibres to Graphene
  • A Mechanisms-Based Framework for Describing Failure in Composite Materials
  • The Origins of Residual Stress and its Evaluation in Composite Materials
  • A Multiscale Synergistic Damage Mechanics Approach for Modeling Progressive Failure in Composite Laminates
  • From Micro to Macro—Simulating Crack Propagation in Carbon Fibre Composites
  • Multi-Scale Modeling of High-Temperature Polymer Matrix Composites for Aerospace Applications
  • Modeling of Damage Evaluation and Failure of Laminated Composite Materials across Length Scales
  • Computational Techniques for Simulation of Damage and Failure in Composite Materials
  • Damage Evolution Modelling in Laminates
  • Virtual Testing of Impact in Fiber Reinforced Laminates
  • Mixed-Mode Fatigue of Bonded Joints in Composites—Experiments and Modelling
  • A General and Rigorous Accelerated Testing Methodology for Long-Term Life Prediction of Polymeric Materials
  • Effects of Environment on Creep Behavior of Three Oxide–Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites at 1200 °C
  • Anisotropic Three-Dimensional Arrays of Fibres
  • Structural Integrity and the Implementation of Engineering Composite Materials
  • The Control of the Residual Lifetimes of Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composite Pressure Vessels
  • An Extension of the Point-Stress Criterion Based on a Coupled Stress and Energy Fulfilment—Application to the Prediction of the Open-Hole Tensile Strength of a Composite Plate
  • Compressive Fracture of Layered Composites Caused by Internal Instability
  • Analysis of Delamination in Laminates with Angle-Ply Matrix Cracks—Onset of Damage and Residual Stiffness Properties
  • Blast Resistance of Polymeric Composite Sandwich Structures
  • Maintenance and Monitoring of Composite Helicopter Structures and Materials
  • Dynamic Fractures of Adhesively Bonded Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymeric Joints
  • Damage Tolerance and Survivability of Composite Aircraft Structures
  • Computational and Experimental Study of Composite Scarf Bonded Joints
  • Composite Bond Inspection
  • Tensile Failure of Composite Scarf Repair
  • Carbon and Titanium Dioxide Nanotube Polymer Composite Manufacturing – Characterization and Interphase Modeling
  • Recycling of Reinforced Plastics
  • Design and Performance of Novel Aircraft Structures with Folded Composite Cores
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