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Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials
- 1st Edition - February 8, 2001
- Authors: Valery V. Vasiliev, Evgeny V. Morozov
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 3 6 0 5 - 7
This book is concerned with the topical problems of mechanics of advanced composite materials whose mechanical properties are controlled by high-strength and high-stiffness… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThere already exist numerous publications that cover anisotropic elasticity, mechanics of composite materials, design, analysis, fabrication, and application of composite structures but the difference between this book and the existing ones is that this is of a more specific nature. It covers specific features of material behaviour such as nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, creep, and structural nonlinearity and discusses in detail the problems of material micro- and macro-mechanics that are only slightly touched in existing books, e.g. stress diffusion in a unidirectional material with broken fibers, physical and statistical aspects of fiber strength, coupling effects in anisotropic and laminated materials, etc.
The authors are designers of composite structures who were involved in practically all the main Soviet and then Russian projects in composite technology, and the permission of the Russian Composite Center - Central Institute of Special Machinery (CRISM) to use in this book the pictures of structures developed and fabricated in CRISM as part of the joint research and design project is much appreciated.
Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials consists of eight chapters progressively covering all structural levels of composite materials from their components through elementary plies and layers to laminates.
Introduction.
Structural Materials. Composite Materials. Fibers for Advanced Composites. Matrix materials. Processing. References.
Fundamentals of Mechanics of Solids.
Stresses. Equilibrium Equations. Stress Transformation. Principal Stresses. Displacements and Strains. Transformation of Small Strains. Compatibility Equations. Admissible Static and Kinematic Fields. Constitutive Equations for an Elastic Solid. Formulations of the Problem. Variational Principles. Principle of minimum total potential energy. Principle of minimum strain energy. Mixed variational principles. References
Mechanics of a Unidirectional Ply.
Ply Architecture. Fiber-Matrix Interaction.
Theoretical and actual strength.
Statistical aspects of fiber strength. Stress diffusion in fibers interacting through the matrix. Fracture toughness. Micromechanics of a Ply. Mechanical Properties of a Ply under Tension, Shear, and Compression. Longitudinal tension. Transverse tension. In-plane shear. Longitudinal compression. Transverse compression. Hybrid Composites. Phenomenological Homogeneous Model of a Ply. References.
Mechanics of a Composite Layer.
Isotropic Layer. Linear elastic model. Nonlinear models. Unidirectional Orthotropic Layer. Linear elastic model. Nonlinear models. Unidirectional Anisotropic Layer. Linear elastic model. Nonlinear models. Orthogonally Reinforced Orthotropic Layer. Linear elastic model. Nonlinear models. Angle-Ply Orthotropic Layer. Linear elastic model. Nonlinear models. Free-edge effects. Fabric Layers. Lattice Layer. Spatially Reinforced Layers and Bulk Materials. References
Mechanics of Laminates.
Stiffness Coefficients of a Generalized Anisotropic Layer. Stiffness Coefficients of a Homogeneous Layer. Stiffness Coefficients of a Laminate. Quasi-Homogeneous Laminates. Laminate composed of identical homogeneous layers. Laminate composed of inhomogeneous orthotropic layers. Laminate composed of angle-ply layers. Quasi-Isotropic Laminates. Symmetric Laminates. Antisymmetric Laminates. Sandwich Structures. Coordinate of the Reference Plane. Stresses in Laminates. Example. References
Failure Criteria and Strength of Laminates.
Failure Criteria for an Elementary Composite Layer or Ply. Maximum stress and strain criteria. Approximation strength criteria. Interlaminar strength. Practical Recommendations and Discussion. Examples. References
Environmental, Special Loading, and Manufacturing Effects.
Temperature Effects. Thermal conductivity. Thermoelasticity. Hydrothermal Effects and Aging. Time and Time-Dependent Loading Effects. Viscoelasticity. Durability. Cyclic loading. Impact loading. Manufacturing Effects. References
Optimal Composite Structures.. Optimal Fibrous Structures. Composite Laminates of Uniform Strength. Application to Pressure Vessels. References.
Name index.
Subject index.
- No. of pages: 424
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 8, 2001
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- eBook ISBN: 9780080536057
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