Experimental Characterization of Advanced Composite Materials,Third Edition
Over much of the last three decades, the evolution of techniques for characterizing composite materials has struggled to keep up with the advances of composite materials themselves and their broadening areas of application. In recent years, however, much work has been done to consolidate test methods and better understand those being used. Finally, a consensus regarding the best available methods exists, and definitive recommendations can be made.\ Experimental Characterization of Advanced...
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Over much of the last three decades, the evolution of techniques for characterizing composite materials has struggled to keep up with the advances of composite materials themselves and their broadening areas of application. In recent years, however, much work has been done to consolidate test methods and better understand those being used. Finally, a consensus regarding the best available methods exists, and definitive recommendations can be made.Experimental Characterization of Advanced Composite Materials provides a concise, authoritative treatment of the best available methods for determining the mechanical properties, thermal expansion coefficients, and fracture and strength data for composite materials. With emphasis firmly on practical matters, it presents processing techniques, specimen preparation, analyses of test methods, test procedures, and data reduction schemes. Five chapters that cover specific aspects of lamina testing are followed by discussions that extend these principles to laminate responses. The treatment concludes by exploring composite durability issues with discussions on defects and fracture mechanics.With its concise format, detailed procedures, and expert assessments, this book is an outstanding resource for composites manufacturing and test engineers and lab technicians. It brings together all of the most appropriate and widely accepted test test methods developed to date.
1Introduction12Analysis of Composite Materials113Processing of Composite Laminates374Test Specimen Preparation, Strain, and Deformation Measurement Devices, and Testing Machines575Lamina Tensile Response756Lamina Compressive Response857Lamina Shear Response1058Lamina Flexural Response1219Lamina Off-Axis Tensile Response13110Lamina Thermoelastic Response14311Laminate Mechanical Response15112Laminate Thermoelastic Response16313Open-Hole Tensile and Compressive Strengths of Laminates16914Characterization of Delamination Failure185App. ACompliance and Stiffness Transformations and Matrix Operations213App. BPreparation of Test Specimens and Panels215App. CSample Laboratory Report227App. DUnit Conversions235Index237
