Considered to have contributed greatly to the pre-sizing of composite structures, Composite Materials: Design and Applications is a popular reference book for designers of heavily loaded composite parts. Fully updated to mirror the exponential growth and development of composites, this English-language Third Edition:
- Contains all-new coverage of nanocomposites and biocomposites
- Reflects the latest manufacturing processes and applications in the aerospace, automotive, naval, wind turbine, and sporting goods industries
- Provides a design method to define composite multilayered plates under loading, along with all numerical information needed for implementation
- Proposes original study of composite beams of any section shapes and thick-laminated composite plates, leading to technical formulations that are not found in the literature
- Features numerous examples of the pre-sizing of composite parts, processed from industrial cases and reworked to highlight key information
- Includes test cases for the validation of computer software using finite elements
Consisting of three main parts, plus a fourth on applications, Composite Materials: Design and Applications, Third Edition features a technical level that rises in difficulty as the text progresses, yet each part still can be explored independently. While the heart of the book, devoted to the methodical pre-design of structural parts, retains its original character, the contents have been significantly rewritten, restructured, and expanded to better illustrate the types of challenges encountered in modern engineering practice.
Table of Contents:
Composite Materials: Interest and Physical Properties. Manufacturing Processes. Ply Properties. Sandwich Structures. Conception: Design and Drawing. Conception: Fastening and Joining. Composite Materials and Aerospace Construction. Composite Materials for Various Applications. Anisotropic Elastic Medium. Elastic Constants of Unidirectional Composites. Elastic Constants of a Ply in Any Direction. Mechanical Behavior of Thin Laminated Plates. Elastic Coefficients. Damage in Composite Parts; Failure Criteria. Bending of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape. Torsion of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape. Bending of Thick Composite Plates. Applications Levels 1-3.
About the Author :
Daniel Gay has 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
"The author has worked out many practical problems in closed form. Such solutions are useful to see the effects of parameters that can form the basis of optimization. Such observations are not always easy to do with digital solutions like those from finite element analysis. Another advantage of closed-form solution is its speed in getting the answers, and it has no numerical convergence issue. ... 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
