Finite Element Analysis of Composite Materials Using Abaqus – Ever J. Barbero – 1st Edition

Half a century after their commercial introduction, composite materials are in widespread use in many industries. Applications such as aerospace, windmill blades, highway bridge retrofits and many more require designs that ensure safe operation. and reliable for twenty years or more.Using composite materials, virtually any property, such as stiffness, strength, thermal conductivity, and fire resistance, can be tailored to the needs of users by selecting the constituent material, its proportion and geometric arrangement, etc. In other words, the engineer can design the material at the same time as the structure.

Furthermore, the failure modes are much more complex in composite materials than in classical materials. Such demands for performance, safety, and reliability require engineers to consider a variety of phenomena during design. Therefore, the goal of the Composite Materials: Analysis and Design book series is to provide the design engineer with a collection of expertly written papers on all aspects of composite materials that are relevant to their design. The variety and sophistication of material systems and processing techniques has grown exponentially in response to an increasing number and type of applications. Given the variety of composite materials available, as well as their continuous change and improvement, the understanding of composite materials is not complete.

Therefore, this series of books serves not only the practicing engineer, but also the researcher and student seeking to advance the state of the art in understanding structural and material response and to develop new engineering tools for modeling and predict such responses. Therefore, the series focuses on bringing existing and developing knowledge about material-property relationships, processing-property relationships, and the structural response of composite materials and structures to the public. The scope of the series includes analytical, experimental, and numerical methods that have a clear impact on the design of composite structures