A greater use of composite materials in many areas of engineering has led to a greater demand for engineers versed in the design of structures made from such materials. This text offers students and engineers tools for designing practical composite structures. Among the topics of interest to the designer are stress-strain relationships for a wide range of anisotropic materials; bending, buckling, and vibration of plates; bending, torsion, buckling, and vibration of solid as well as thin-walled beams; shells; hygrothermal stresses and strains; finite element formulation; and failure criteria. More than 300 illustrations, 50 fully worked problems, and material properties data sets are included.
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"...the book is a uniquely successful sythesis of writing. On the one hand the book is written clearly, with practical users in mind. On the other hand, the text is complete and is based on sound fundamental principles...this comprehensive book has not just become either a collection of formulae or lengthy derivations...It also resulted in numerical examples that not only illustrate solution techniques but shed light on the underlying principles." Journal of Computational and Applied Mechanics
"Overall, the book will be of practical use to final year undergraduate enginering students, researchers on composites and practicing engineers seeking to acquire knoledge of mechanics of composite materials and of their applications." The Aeronautical Journal, C. Soutis
"Overall, the book will be of practical use to final year undergraduate enginering students, researchers on composites and practicing engineers seeking to acquire knoledge of mechanics of composite materials and of their applications." The Aeronautical Journal, C. Soutis
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An increase in the use of composite materials has led to a greater demand for engineers versed in the design of structures made from such materials. This book is one of the first to demonstrate advanced concepts or emphasize structures. Among the topics of interest to the designer are stress-strain relationships for a wide range of anisotropic materials; bending, buckling, and vibration of plates; bending, torsion, buckling, and vibration of solid and thin walled beams; finite element formulation; and failure criteria. More than 300 illustrations, 50 fully worked problems, and material properties data sets are included.
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Excellent Reference! (Even if the notation is a bit insane),
This review is from: Mechanics of Composite Structures (Hardcover)
This book has proven to be incredibly useful and is one of the most complete references I own. It covers the basics as well as what I'd consider to be advanced topics. Recently I've used it as a reference to verify methods for: i) stiffness of a built-up orthotropic open beam section made up of varying laminates; ii) orthotropic plate buckling (long/short & varying boundary conditions); and iii) buckling of open-section orthotropic beams (flexural-torsional, lateral-torsional & local). The book often does a better job of explaining the behaviour than my "approved" methods sources. That's why I decided to write this review.One word of warning, his notation doesn't always match what I'm used to. The author seems to have a love of squiggly Greek characters, and doesn't hesitate to use them in place of more common notation (common being what's used in MIL-HDBK/CMH-17 and most other references I've used).
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GREAT reference book,
This review is from: Mechanics of Composite Structures (Paperback)
This book is simply great ...the initial 3-4 chapters covers the complete fundamentals needed for the composite study and the remaining chapters deals with all the particular structural problems encountered. I used this book for my thesis work.The best part of this book is the compilation method. The boxes in between the sections is one of the very good summarizing practice. Also the appendix content help a lot in understanding the problem and the mechanics. According to me this is one of the most complete book in terms of the theory of mechanics of composite materials.
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In this book we focus on fiber-reinforced composites composed of fibers embedded in a matrix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symmetrical layup, replacement stiffnesses, orthotropic layup, isotropic facesheets, isotropic sandwich beam, epoxy unidirectional plies, torque neutral, lowest resulting value, arbitrary layup, isotropic beam subjected, orthotropic beams, bar coordinate system, composite facesheets, hygrothermal forces, quadratic failure criterion, bottom facesheets, chosen reference surface, rectangular sandwich plate, shear stiffness matrix, lowest buckling load, graphite epoxy facesheets, unsymmetrical cross sections, freely vibrating beam, hygrothermal strains, orthotropy directions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, John Wiley, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Structural Engineering, New Jersey, Theory of Elastic Stability, Halsted Press, Structural Analysis of Laminated Anisotropic Plates, Englewood Cliffs, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Buckling of Orthotropic Plates, Local Buckling of Composite, Substitution of Eqs, Discrete Plate Analysis, Vibration Problems, Aeronautical Journal, Buckling of Unidirectionally Loaded Composite Plates, Engineering Mechanics of Solids, Following Whitney, Illustration of Step, Supports Buckling New!
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In this book we focus on fiber-reinforced composites composed of fibers embedded in a matrix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symmetrical layup, replacement stiffnesses, orthotropic layup, isotropic facesheets, isotropic sandwich beam, epoxy unidirectional plies, torque neutral, lowest resulting value, arbitrary layup, isotropic beam subjected, orthotropic beams, bar coordinate system, composite facesheets, hygrothermal forces, quadratic failure criterion, bottom facesheets, chosen reference surface, rectangular sandwich plate, shear stiffness matrix, lowest buckling load, graphite epoxy facesheets, unsymmetrical cross sections, freely vibrating beam, hygrothermal strains, orthotropy directions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, John Wiley, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Structural Engineering, New Jersey, Theory of Elastic Stability, Halsted Press, Structural Analysis of Laminated Anisotropic Plates, Englewood Cliffs, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Buckling of Orthotropic Plates, Local Buckling of Composite, Substitution of Eqs, Discrete Plate Analysis, Vibration Problems, Aeronautical Journal, Buckling of Unidirectionally Loaded Composite Plates, Engineering Mechanics of Solids, Following Whitney, Illustration of Step, Supports Buckling New!
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- Theory of Elastic Stability (Engineering Society Monographs) by Stephen P. Timoshenko on 9 pages
- Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Third Edition by T.H.G. Megson on 6 pages
- Engineering Mathematics (v. 2) by A. J. Spencer on 5 pages
- Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig on 5 pages
- Vibration Problems in Engineering by Donovan H Young Stephen P Timoshenko on 4 pages
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- Fire Retardant Materials by A.R. Horrocks on page 202
- Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites by Bhagwan D. Agarwal on page 322
- Mechanics of Fatigue (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series) by Vladimir V. Bolotin in Back Matter
- Mechanics of Composite Structural Elements (Foundations of Engineering Mechanics) by Holm Altenbach in Back Matter
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