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| dc.contributor.author | Chawla, Krishan K. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-20T04:01:29Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-20T04:01:29Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-387-74365-3 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/98 | - |
| dc.description | The subject of composite materials is truly an inter- and multidisciplinary one.
People working in fields such as metallurgy and materials science and engineering,
chemistry and chemical engineering, solid mechanics, and fracture mechanics have
made important contributions to the field of composite materials. It would be an
impossible task to cover the subject from all these viewpoints. Instead, we shall
restrict ourselves in this book to the objective of obtaining an understanding of
composite properties (e.g., mechanical, physical, and thermal) as controlled by their
structure at micro- and macro-levels. This involves a knowledge of the properties of
the individual constituents that form the composite system, the role of interface
between the components, the consequences of joining together, say, a fiber and
matrix material to form a unit composite ply, and the consequences of joining
together these unit composites or plies to form a macrocomposite, a macroscopic
engineering component as per some optimum engineering specifications. Time and
again, we shall be emphasizing this main theme, that is structure–property
correlations at various levels that help us to understand the behavior of composites. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Since the publication of the second edition of this book, there has been a spate of
activity in the field of composites, in the academia as well as in the industry.
The industrial activity, in particular, has been led by the large-scale use of
composites by aerospace companies, mainly Boeing and Airbus. It would not be
far off the mark to say that the extensive use of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites
in Boeing 787 aircraft and a fairly large use of composites in Airbus’s A 380 aircraft
represent a paradigm shift. Boeing 787 has composites in the fuselage, windows,
wings, tails, stabilizers, etc., resulting in 50% in composites by weight. Neverthe-
less, it should be pointed out that in reality, the extensive use of composites in
aircraft is a culmination of a series of earlier steps over the decades since mid-1960s.
Besides the large-scale applications in the aerospace industry, there have been
impressive developments in other fields such as automotive, sporting goods, super-
conductivity, etc. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Science | en_US |
| dc.subject | Engineering | en_US |
| dc.subject | Composite Materials | en_US |
| dc.title | Composite Materials | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE
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