The Essentials of Composite Materials
eBook - ePub

The Essentials of Composite Materials

A Guide for Engineering and Beyond

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eBook - ePub

The Essentials of Composite Materials

A Guide for Engineering and Beyond

About this book

The Essentials of Composite Materials: A Guide for Engineering and Beyond combines the theory of composite materials and their applications, with a focus on the main industries where they are used. Using the author's experience as a naval architect, boat builder, and composites designer, this book offers a guide to the selection of the most appropriate production processes, procedures, and materials for a particular project. It comprehensively covers polymer matrix composites, explaining what composite materials are, their components, and what they can be used for.

• Combines theoretical material with practical examples in a uniquely accessible way.

• Explores fabric structures, materials, resins, procedures, and manufacturing processes, including details that can only be discovered through hands-on work.

• Covers the more analytical side, explaining classical laminate plate theory, composite systems, strength, and failure criteria.

• Discusses applications in automotive, aerospace, civil, medical device, and naval industries.

This text serves as a practical tool for readers working in the composite fields as well as those looking to enter it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1 What Exactly Is a Composite Material?
  8. Chapter 2 Polymer Matrix Composites
  9. Chapter 3 Fillers or Type of Reinforcements
  10. Chapter 4 Role of Fibres and the Matrix
  11. Chapter 5 Materials Categories
  12. Chapter 6 Material Types
  13. Chapter 7 Composite Material Application Field
  14. Chapter 8 Advantages and Disadvantages of PMCs
  15. Chapter 9 Materials Used in the Naval Industry
  16. Chapter 10 Reinforcing Materials Design
  17. Chapter 11 Fabric Structures
  18. Chapter 12 Thermoset Matrices
  19. Chapter 13 High-Performance Thermoplastic Matrices
  20. Chapter 14 Material Selection
  21. Chapter 15 Manufacturing Methods
  22. Chapter 16 Factors to be Considered in the Manufacturing Process Selection
  23. Chapter 17 Composite Product Design
  24. Chapter 18 Fibre-to-Resin Ratio
  25. Chapter 19 Critical Variables during the Process Development in Composite Materials
  26. Chapter 20 Thermosetting Materials during the Curing Process
  27. Chapter 21 Glass Transition Temperature
  28. Chapter 22 Solid Polymer Laminate
  29. Chapter 23 Composite Systems
  30. Chapter 24 Laminated Composite Plates Analysis
  31. Chapter 25 Classical Laminate Theory (CLT)
  32. Chapter 26 Laminate
  33. Chapter 27 Introduction to Failure Criteria
  34. Chapter 28 Laminate Sandwich Panels
  35. Chapter 29 Nomenclature
  36. Chapter 30 Composite Recycling
  37. Chapter 31 New Technologies Applied to Composite Materials
  38. Chapter 32 Integrating AI into Composite Materials
  39. Index