From the Back Cover
Understand, diagnose - and avoid - composite materials. Whether you're a designer focused on prevention, or a trouble-shooting detective trying to piece together what went wrong, engineers who work with industrial composite materials applications will find all the answers in this comprehensive, state-of-the-art compendium. Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials spotlights every aspect of fracture and failure (including avoidance) in those ever-more-important polymer, ceramic, and metal matrix materials. Spanning the entire spectrum of failures and fractures, this task-simplifying resource covers the many details of evaluation, specific causes and conditions, materials, and applications, as documented by international leaders in the field. You get all the easy-to-implement information you need on: the latest testing and analysis procedures; detailed data on the complete range of causes of fractures and failures in a broad range of materials; engineering confidence levels and their determination; design criteria for the complete range of materials and applications; specific case studies in aerospace, construction, and medical engineering. From crack initiation to crack growth, from notch-size effect to damage-tolerant design, this important new reference supplies quality and safety assurance and support to engineers who design and work with composites. Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials is an all-in-one tool packed with facts, guidance, and foresight you'll be glad to have on the job, for project large and small.
About the Author
Professor E. E. Gdoutos is Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Director of the Section of Design and Construction of Structures, Department of Civil Engineering, the Democritus University of Thrace. He is visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Davis; the Michigan Technological University; the National Technical University of Athens; and the University of Toledo. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Applied Composite Materials, and Advanced Composite Letters. Gdoutos is Fellow of ASME, and received the Distinguished Visiting Professorship Award from Toledo University in 1992. A member of the Structures and Materials Panel of AGARD since 1992, he serves on the Research Board of Advisors; is Fellow of the American Biographical Institute; and is Vice-Chairman of the Research Committee of the Democritus University of Thrace. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, 8th-14th editions. Dr. K. Pilakoutas is Reader in Civil Engineering at Sheffield University and Manager of the Centre for Cement and Concrete. He is a Registered Engineer in Cyprus, and is a member of the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics; Institution of Civil Engineers; American Concrete Institute; and the Committee Euro International du Beton. Dr. C. A. Rodopoulos is recognized worldwide as an expert in the failure analysis of composite materials. He is Research Associate at the Structural Integrity Research Institute, University of Sheffield, (SIRIUS), and fellow member of the Composite Research Group. He received two research awards from the EU, and holds memberships in ASME, SAE, ASTM, AIAA, ESIS. The author of dozens of scientific and technical papers published in national and international journals, he is on the advisory board of National Technical Publications of Greece and is listed in Who's Who in the World.
