For decades, Composite Materials: Design and Applications has guided readers on the efficient design of structural composite parts and has illustrated challenges encountered in modern engineering practice. The Fourth Edition of this perennial best-seller, now including a foreword by Professor Stephen Tsai, retains its pedagogical structure, featuring a technical level that rises in difficulty as the text progresses, while allowing each part to be explored independently, but has been updated to mirror recent advances and developments in manufacturing processes and applications.
- Gives numerous examples of the pre-sizing of composite parts, processed from industrial cases and reworked to highlight key information
- Provides a design method to define composite multilayered plates under loading, along with all numerical information needed for implementation
- Includes test cases for the validation of computer software using finite elements
- Proposes original study of composite beams of any section shapes and of transverse shear behavior of laminates, leading to technical formulations that are not found in the literature
- Reflects the latest manufacturing processes and applications in the aerospace, automotive, naval, wind turbine, and sporting goods industries, and now features new details on the recycling of composites and additive manufacturing
- Offers new coverage of ceramic-matrix composites and new concepts for design of laminates, including Double-Double and tapered laminates by means of Tsai homogenization
This book serves as a textbook for advanced students studying composite materials design, as well as a handy reference for industry professionals working with composite materials.
Figure slides are available for qualifying adopting professors.
Table of Contents:
PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION.
1. Composite Materials: Interest and Physical Properties.
2. Manufacturing Processes.
3. Mechanical Properties of Reinforcement–Matrix Associations
4. Sandwich Structures.
5. Conception: Design and Drawing.
6. Conception: Fastening and Joining.
7. Composite Materials and Aerospace Construction.
8. Composite Materials for Various Applications.
PART 2: MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF LAMINATED MATERIALS.
9. Anisotropic Elastic Medium.
10. Elastic Constants of Unidirectional Composites.
11. Elastic Constants of a Ply in Any Direction.
12. Mechanical Behavior of Thin Laminated Plates.
PART 3: JUSTIFICATIONS, D-D LAMINATES, COMPOSITE BEAMS, AND TRANSVERSE SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF MULTILAYERED PLATES.
13. Elastic Coefficients.
14. Damage in Composite Parts; Failure Criteria.
15. Quasi-Orthotropic Homogenized Laminates or D-D Laminates.
16. Bending of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape.
17. Torsion of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape.
18. Transverse Shear Behavior of Multilayered Plates.
PART 4: APPLICATIONS.
19. Applications Level 1.
20. Applications Level 2.
21. Applications Level 3.
Appendix A: Stresses in the Plies of a Carbon/Epoxy Quadrangle Symmetric Laminate Loaded in Its Plane.
Appendix B: Buckling of Orthotropic Structures
About the Author :
Daniel Gay led the Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse, now the Institut Clément Ader, from its inception for over 15 years. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Dr. Gay has authored numerous articles, scientific publications, and industrial reports on composite materials and structures. He has taught at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels in many schools and institutions, including the Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III (UPS), Instituts Universitaires de Technologie (IUT), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), and École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA).
Review :
"Very good illustrations on the problem setup, theory, and physical representation. Very easy to follow."
—Dr. Gang Wang, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
"This book covers the topics related to the mechanics of composite materials in a very simple way. ... It is addressed to graduate and undergraduate students as well as to practical engineers who want to enhance their knowledge and learn the guidelines of the use of composite materials. ... This book is...a good classroom material...[and] a good reference."
—Dr. Pierre Rahme, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon
"In this new edition of a truly innovative manual, the basic concepts of our new horizon for composite materials have been covered. They…should be learned and practiced. Students are encouraged to pay attention to the hard work of the author and gain confidence in composites to produce better aircraft and transportation systems....This is an excellent textbook for teaching and also a reference for practicing engineers. I highly recommend it."
—Stephen W. Tsai, Stanford University, California, USA
