Adopted by 55 universities worldwide as a textbook for a technical elective in engineering majors such as civil, mechanical, aerospace, nuclear and materials science, this textbook is highly popular in the undergraduate as well as the graduate curriculum.
Features
- Explains the basics of composites, including their importance to industry
- Identifies type of fibers and matrices, applications, and recycling
- Discusses the mechanical behavior and properties of a single lamina
- Finds properties of a unidirectional lamina from individual constituent properties
- Explains the macromechanics of laminates
- Examines the use of special laminates
- Analyzes the failure and design of laminated composites
- Includes PROMAL software