Composites engineering : an A-Z guide / Parvez Alam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alam, Parvez (Ph. D.), author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2021 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composite materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Composites Engineering

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Dr. Parvez Alam is currently a Senior Lecturer in Materials Modelling and Design at The University of Edinburgh (UK). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Composite Materials and Biostructures (Finland), and a Visiting Professor of Biomimetics (Indonesia). Prior to his current post, he held a Senior Marie Curie Fellowship where he worked on advanced composites for use in renewable energy technologies. His research efforts are primarily focused on: biomimetic design, composite materials, materials mechanics, mechanical metamaterials, comparative biomechanics, and engineering design.

Summary:

Composites Engineering: An A-Z Guide provides a quick and accessible reference to composites terminologies. Arranged like a dictionary, each entry provides a brief but thorough description of over 90 typical and atypical composites terminologies. Comprehensive without being overly detailed, the book fills a gap for an accessible reference text of composites engineering terms and concepts. It is ideal for composites scientists and engineers at universities and in industry, as well as for undergraduates new to the field.

Contents:

1. 'A'

1.1. Abrasion

1.2. Accelerated testing

1.3. Additives

1.4. Adhesion

1.5. Air bubble voids

1.6. Angle-ply laminate

1.7. Anisotropy

1.8. Areal weight

1.9. Aramid

1.10. Aspect ratio

1.11. Autoclave

1.12. Automated material placement (AMP)

2. 'B'

2.1. Bag moulding (vacuum bag moulding)

2.2. Balanced laminates

2.3. Band width

2.4. Batt

2.5. Biaxial Load

2.6. Burst strength

3. 'C'

3.1. C-scan

3.2. Carbon fibre

3.3. Cellular solids

3.4. Class (composite class)

3.5. Compression moulding

3.6. Consolidation

3.7. Contact moulding

3.8. Coupon

3.9. Crazing

3.10. Crimp

3.11. Cross ply laminates

3.12. Curing

4. 'D'

4.1. Damage models

4.2. Defects

4.3. Draping and hot drape forming

4.4. Dry fibre material (prepreg)

5. 'E'

5.1. Ejection (demoulding)

5.2. Exotherm

5.3. Extrusion

6. 'F'

6.1. Fatigue

6.2. Filler

6.3. Flitch

6.4. Fracture: interlaminar (FRP)

7. 'G'

7.1. Gel coat

7.2. Glass fibres

7.3. Glass transition

8. 'H'

8.1. Halpin-Tsai model

8.2. Hygroscopy

8.3. Hybrid composite

9. 'I'

9.1. Interlaminar shear

9.2. Interphase

10. 'J'

10.1. Joining of metal matrix composites (MMCs)

10.2. Joining

10.3. Joining of thermoplastic matrix composites

11. 'K'

11.1. Kevlar

11.2. Knitted fabric composites

12. 'L'

12.1. Laminate theory

13. 'M'

13.1. Mat

13.2. Matrix

14. 'N'

14.1. Natural fibre composite (NFC) materials

14.2. Nanocomposites

15. 'O'

15.1. Orowan strengthening (MMCs)

16. 'P'

16.1. Physical vapour deposition (PVD) methods in MMCs

16.2. Piezoelectric composites

16.3. Polymer impregnation and pyrolysis (PIP) in CMCs

16.4. Porous composites

16.5. Post-curing

16.6. Preform

16.7. Pultrusion

16.8. Pyroelectric composites

17. 'Q'

17.1. Quadraxial non-crimp fabric

17.2. Quasi-isotropic laminate

17.3. Quench hardening (metal matrix composites)

18. 'R'

18.1. Reaction injection moulding (RIM) techniques in composites engineering

18.2. Reactive melt infiltration (RMI) in CMCs

18.3. Recycling

18.4. Reinforcement

18.5. Resin transfer moulding (RTM)

18.6. Reinforced concrete

18.7. Rule of mixtures (ROM)

19. 'S'

19.1. Sandwich panels

19.2. Sizing

19.3. Slurry impregnation and hot processing of CMCs

19.4. Substructure/grain strengthening (MMCs)

20. 'T'

20.1. Tri-axial non-crimp fabric

21. 'U'

21.1. Unbalanced laminates

22. 'V'

22.1. Vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding (VARTM)

22.2. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

22.3. Volume fraction

23. 'W'

23.1. Wovens

23.2. Wetting

23.3. Whiskers

23.4. Wood-based composites

24. 'X'

24.1. X-ray computed tomography (x-ray CT/XCT)

25. 'Y'

25.1. Yarn

26. 'Z'

26.1. Z-pinning.

Notes:

"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 8, 2021).

ISBN:

0-7503-3526-2

0-7503-3527-0

OCLC:

1280599657