Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites - Hardcover

Agarwal, Bhagwan D.; Broutman, Lawrence J.; Chandrashekhara, K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471268917 ISBN 13: 9780471268918

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

The updated edition of the cornerstone introduction to analyzing composite materials.

Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, Third Edition is a revision of the classic fundamentals book on composite materials. It provides a complete, up-to-date treatment of the mechanics, materials, analysis, fabrication, characterization, and performance of composite materials, complete with numerous worked examples and exercise problems. The book features new material on such cutting-edge topics as analyzing structures, smart composite structures, and computer software for composite structure analysis.

This Third Edition of the classic text includes greater coverage of composites technology and presents new material on:

• Analysis of laminated plates and beams
• Emerging composite materials
• Measurement of physical properties
• Analysis of orthotropic lamina
• Thermal stresses
• Free-edge effects joints
• Fracture mechanics

Complete with guidance for using the latest MATLAB software for analysis, Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, Third Edition is a must-have for every engineer, scientist, and student in the field.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Fiber reinforced composite materials are so integral to today,s product manufacture, a world without this innovative technology is impossible to imagine. Now routinely used in such high-tech fields as electronics, automobiles, aircraft, and space vehicles, they are also essential to everyday staples of modern life: containers and piping, sporting goods, and appliances. And no wonder. They offer outstanding mechanical properties, versatility of design, light weight, corrosion and impact resistance, excellent fatigue strength—as well as ease of fabrication. This Second Edition of the reference classic, the standard text for composite materials courses worldwide, offers an unparalleled look at this important class of engineering materials. It offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject—from the mechanics, materials, and analysis of fiber composites, to their fabrication, characterization, and performance in practical design applications—in a single, newly expanded volume. Enhanced coverage, designed to provide a view of the total composites industry, includes a new chapter on fabrication methods with an emphasis on reinforced plastics, new material on experimental methods and fracture mechanics, as well as expanded discussion of predictive techniques, and micromechanics analysis. The balance of the text includes an up-to-date discussion of:

• computer analysis of laminates
• damage identification using nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques
• damage due to low-velocity impact
• influence of moisture on performance of polymer matrix composites
• stress corrosion of glass fibers and glass reinforced plastics

The new revisions in format—numbering of sections and subsections, plus additional subject headings—have made the Second Edition an even more accessible reference for students in mechanics and mechanical and aerospace engineering, as well as professional design engineers. The wealth of exercise problems at the end of each chapter serves to enhance comprehension of the material—both in the classroom and at home. New features include a survey of commercially available computer software packages for calculating lamina and laminate properties, as well as a listing of the properties of commercial composites. Fiber composites, the fruit of pure innovative science, have brought countless improvements to our day-to-day lives. And no other reference to date describes the groundwork for this phenomenon with such clarity and depth. Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, Second Edition is an informative look at one of engineering science’s most fascinating frontiers.

About the Author:

Bhagwan D. Agarwal is currently an independent consultant. He has been the vice-president of engineering services at Bodycote Polymer–Broutman Laboratory and professor of mechanical engineering and dean of research and development at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The author of over 70 technical research papers, he has also contributed to several scientific books and holds two U.S. patents.

Lawrence J. Broutman is currently an independent consultant. After serving as professor of materials engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, he founded L.J. Broutman & Associates, a private consulting company. An author of books and technical papers, as well as coeditor of an eight-volume reference set, he holds four U.S. patents.

K. Chandrashekhara is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Composite Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Missouri–Rolla. The author of over 150 technical papers and contributor to several scientific books, he is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0471268917
• ISBN 13: 9780471268918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 576