Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials

All the answers you need to understand, diagnose, and avoid composite material failures in a single guide.This book spotlights every aspect of fracture and failure in polymer, ceramic, and metal matrix materials, putting the latest data at your fingertips. From crack initiation to crack growth, from notch-size effect to damage-tolerant design, here is quality and safety assurance and support you can count on from international leaders in the field. You get: The latest testing and analysis procedures Detailed data on the complete range of causes of fractures and failures in a broad range of materials Engineering confidence levels and their determination Design criteria for materials and applications Specific case studies in aerospace, construction, and medical engineering More

Table of Contents:
Part I: Fracture and Failure Mechanisms. Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Mechanical Properties. Failure Mechanisms and Failure Criteria. Delamination and Debonding. Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Crack Growth. Notch Size Effects. Constant and Variable Amplitude Fatigue Damage of Laminated Fibrous Composites. Fatigue Damage Tolerant Design in Undirectional Metal Matrix Composites. Part II: Case Studies: Aerospace, Construction, and Medical Engineering. Behavior of Composite Structures Under Impact Loading. Composites as Strengthening Material of Concrete Structures. Composites in Concrete Construction. Composites in Biomedical Engineering.

About the Author :
Professor E. E. Gdoutos is Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Director of the Section of Design and Construction of Structures, Department of Civil Engineering, the Democritus University of Thrace. He is visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Davis; the Michigan Technological University; the National Technical University of Athens; and the University of Toledo. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Applied Composite Materials, and Advanced Composite Letters. Gdoutos is Fellow of ASME, and received the Distinguished Visiting Professorship Award from Toledo University in 1992. A member of the Structures and Materials Panel of AGARD since 1992, he serves on the Research Board of Advisors; is Fellow of the American Biographical Institute; and is Vice-Chairman of the Research Committee of the Democritus University of Thrace. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, 8th-14th editions. Dr. K. Pilakoutas is Reader in Civil Engineering at Sheffield University and Manager of the Centre for Cement and Concrete. He is a Registered Engineer in Cyprus, and is a member of the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics; Institution of Civil Engineers; American Concrete Institute; and the Committee Euro International du Beton. Dr. C. A. Rodopoulos is recognized worldwide as an expert in the failure analysis of composite materials. He is Research Associate at the Structural Integrity Research Institute, University of Sheffield, (SIRIUS), and fellow member of the Composite Research Group. He received two research awards from the EU, and holds memberships in ASME, SAE, ASTM, AIAA, ESIS. The author of dozens of scientific and technical papers published in national and international journals, he is on the advisory board of National Technical Publications of Greece and is listed in Who's Who in the World.