Experimental Characterization of Advanced Composite Materials

✍ Scribed by Leif Carlsson, Donald F. Adams, R. Byron Pipes

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Authors......Page 12
Table of Contents......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 Analysis of Composite Materials......Page 30
3 Processing of Composite Laminates......Page 56
4 Test Specimen Preparation, Strain, and Deformation Measurement Devices, and Testing Machines......Page 76
5 Lamina Tensile Response......Page 94
6 Lamina Compressive Response......Page 104
7 Lamina Shear Response......Page 124
8 Lamina Flexural Response......Page 140
9 Lamina Off-Axis Tensile Response......Page 150
10 Lamina Thermoelastic Response......Page 162
11 Laminate Mechanical Response......Page 170
12 Laminate Thermoelastic Response......Page 182
13 Open-Hole Tensile and Compressive Strengths of Laminates......Page 188
14 Characterization of Delamination Failure......Page 204
Appendix A Compliance and Stiffness Transformations and Matrix Operations......Page 232
Appendix B Preparation of Test Specimens and Panels......Page 234
Appendix C Sample Laboratory Report......Page 246
Appendix D Unit Conversions......Page 254
Index......Page 256