Composite Materials: Mechanical Behavior and Structural Analysis (Hardcover, 1999)

Preface; Trnslator's Preface; Part I: Composite Materials; 1. Basic Features of Composite Materials; 2. The Constituents of a Composite Material; 3. Moulding processes and Architecture of Composite Materials; Part II: Basic Concepts of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials; 4. Mathematical Basics; 5. Stresses; 6. Strains; 7. The Elastic Behavior of Materials; 8. The Mechanics of Deformable Solids; Part III: Mechanical Behavior of Composite Materials; 9. Elastic Behavior of Unidirectional Composite Materials; 10. Elastic Behavior of an Orthotropic Composite; 11. Off-Axis Behavior of Composite Materials; 12. Fracture Mechanisms and Damage of Composite Materials; Part IV: Modelling the Mechanical Behavior of Laminates and Sandwich Plates; 13. Basics of Laminate Theory; 14. Classical Laminate Theory; 15. Effect of the Stacking Sequence. Mat and Cloth Reinforced Materials; 16. Governing Equations and Energy Formulation of Classical Laminate Theory; 17. Including Transverse Shear Deformation in Laminate Theory; 18. Theory of Sandwich Plates; Part V: Analysis of the Mechanical Behavior of Composite Material Structures; 19. Cylindrical bending; 20. Bending of Laminate and Sandwich Beams; 21.