FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Detailed analysis of composite materials-including three-dimensional effects, viscoelasticity, edge effects, elastic instability, and temperature effects-is crucial in structural applications such as NASA's space shuttle and civil aircrafts. In addition, more structural applications are switching to the use of composites instead of metal. This highly practical and thoroughly detailed work describes the theory and applications of material and structural analysis of composite materials and structure made of composite materials using finite element analysis. The book provides ANSYS code for examples and covers damage mechanics, computational micromechanical analysis, and other related topics.