Functional Composites

The book is essential for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of advanced composite materials and their intricate behaviors, offering comprehensive insights into the mechanics, design, and innovative applications of functional composites in today’s engineering landscape.

Understanding the complicated vibration behavior of composite beams, plates, shells, curved membranes, rings, and other complex structures is crucial for modern-day engineering. Functional Composites: Role in Modern Engineering addresses current progress in the mechanics and design of functional composites and structures. It covers the characterization of properties, analyses, and design of various advanced composite material systems with an emphasis on coupled mechanical and non-mechanical behaviors. The book comprehensively covers analyses of functional materials related to piezoelectric and magnetostrictive nanocomposites, as well as the design of active fiber composites. Techniques and challenges in producing functional composites and identifying their coupled properties are also discussed. The book culminates in a discussion on more advanced uses of functional composites and how these smart structures can be analyzed on a larger scale. The book’s comprehensive coverage of the innovative potential of these composites makes it an essential resource for industry professionals and students alike.

Readers will find that the book:

• Explores technologies for improvement in advanced processes and the application of functional composites;
• Introduces both recently developed and emerging functional composites;
• Provides comprehensive insight into concepts such as the successful fabrication of multipurpose functional composites, sustainability of functional composites, and future scopes and challenges of functional composites;
• Serves as a valuable reference for students and researchers working with functional composites.

Audience

Materials scientists, mechanical, manufacturing, biomedical, and industrial engineers in industry and academia, as well as students, who are working with functional composites.

Sandip Kunar, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Aditya University. He has published over 60 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, 53 book chapters, and 16 books. His research interests include non-conventional machining processes, micromachining processes, advanced manufacturing technology, and industrial engineering.

Pranav Charkha is the Deputy Director and Academic Dean at the G.H. Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Business Management. He has published over 40 papers in international journals and conferences, four books, and five chapters. He has also been granted five copyrights and two patents and has submitted an additional four for consideration. His research focuses on supply chain management, additive manufacturing, and world-class manufacturing for Industry 4.0.

Santosh Jaju, PhD is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering with over 22 years of teaching experience. He has published over 100 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, six book chapters, and one book, in addition to filing six patents. His research interests include quality cost, service quality, lean manufacturing, productivity improvement techniques, and industrial engineering.

Harish Tiwari, PhD Head of the Institute at the Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering and Research. He has been awarded numerous government-funded grants and holds the Indian record for filing the highest number of patents in a day. His teaching and research interests include heat and thermal engineering.