Composite Materials & Sandwich Structures – Design and Analysis

Title: Materiais Compostos & Estruturas Sanduíche – Projeto e Análise
Autor: Paulo de Tarso R. Mendonça

Publisher: Orsa Maggiore
Edition: 2/2019

Sinopse:

Engineers and teachers in the fields of continuum mechanics and structures will find the text a rich source of reference, with calculation procedures clearly organised in flowchart form, discussed in detail and exemplified. Some topics of fundamental importance in the advanced application of composite materials are included, such as finite element formulations for laminated plates and shells, static and dynamic behaviour, stability, thermoelasticity and the piezomechanical effect.

Characteristics and details:

Some of the text’s features are as follows:

• 577 pages, including more than 50 pages of fully detailed examples;
• Explanations aided by more than 290 figures;
• Detailed flowcharts of all calculation sequences and material data tables;
• 10 chapters covering all the practical aspects commonly encountered in day-to-day engineering applications of design and calculation of structures and components such as members and beams;
•  11 chapters with advanced topics usable in research, postgraduate courses and as reference material;
• A totally new approach, with accessible language, which allows the entire first part to be used as a manual for the mechanical or civil engineer, or as a textbook in an undergraduate course in the area, or even as self-directed study material. Furthermore, with the addition of the second part, the text becomes sufficiently complete to allow it to be applied to a postgraduate course on analysing composite material components;
• Both traditional topics such as Classical Lamination Theory and modern and useful topics such as the calculation of structural profile beams and sandwich panels and finite element modelling and intelligent structures based on thermoelasticity and the piezomechanical effect are included.
• Formulations based on thin plate models, semi-thick plate models, higher order theories and discrete zig-zag layer models are developed.

PART I – Undergraduate studies and engineering

• Linear theories, algebraic formulations;
• Detailed revision of the theories of isotropic-homogeneous beams and plates;
• “Strength of materials” type formulations, based on classical lamination theory, for modelling structural elements such as beams, simple plates, bars under torsion;
• Sandwich beam theory;
• Themoelastic stresses in beams and plates;
• Aspects of matrix types and reinforcements; composite manufacturing processes.

PART II – postgraduate studies and research

• Analysis;
• Theories based on continuum mechanics;
• Differential and integral formulations;
• First order and higher order theories for beams, plates;
• Analysis of interlaminar stresses;
• Theory and analysis of sandwich panels;
• Synthesis of honeycombs;
• Classical analytical solutions for beam, thin plate, semi-thick plate and higher order problems;
• Modelling of bending, vibration and stability problems for beams and panels;
• Finite element formulation for first order plates and laminated degenerated shells;
• Higher order theories. Discrete layer models and zig-zag theories;
• Intelligent structures – piezoelasticity.