Advanced mechanics of composite materials and structural elements Front Cover; Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 STRUCTURAL MATERIALS; 1.2 COMPOSITE MATERIALS; 1.3 References; Chapter 2 Fundamentals of mechanics of solids; 2.1 STRESSES; 2.2 EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS; 2.3 STRESS TRANSFORMATION; 2.4 PRINCIPAL STRESSES; 2.5 DISPLACEMENTS AND STRAINS; 2.6 TRANSFORMATION OF SMALL STRAINS; 2.7 COMPATIBILITY EQUATIONS; 2.8 ADMISSIBLE STATIC AND KINEMATIC FIELDS; 2.9 CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR AN ELASTIC SOLID; 2.10 FORMULATIONS OF THE PROBLEM 5.10 COORDINATE OF THE REFERENCE PLANE5.11 STRESSES IN LAMINATES; 5.12 References; Chapter 6 Failure criteria and strength of laminates; 6.1 FAILURE CRITERIA FOR AN ELEMENTARY COMPOSITE LAYER OR PLY; 6.2 PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS; 6.3 EXAMPLES; 6.4 ALLOWABLE STRESSES FOR LAMINATES CONSISTING OF UNIDIRECTIONAL PLIES; 6.5 PROGRESSIVE FAILURE: MODELING AND ANALYSIS; 6.6 References; Chapter 7 Environmental special loading and manufacturing effects; 7.1 TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; 7.2 HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS AND AGING; 7.3 TIME DEPENDENT LOADING EFFECTS; 7.4 MANUFACTURING EFFECTS; 7.5 References Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements analyzes contemporary theoretical models at the micro and macro levels of material structure. Its coverage of practical methods and approaches experimental results and optimization of composite material properties and structural component performance can be put to practical use by researchers and engineers. The third edition of the book consists of twelve chapters progressively covering all structural levels of composite materials from their constituents through elementary plies and layers to laminates and la 4.6 LAYER MADE BY ANGLE PLY CIRCUMFERENTIAL WINDING4.7 FABRIC LAYERS; 4.8 LATTICE LAYER; 4.9 SPATIALLY REINFORCED LAYERS AND BULK MATERIALS; 4.10 References; Chapter 5 Mechanics of laminates; 5.1 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A NONHOMOGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC LAYER; 5.2 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A HOMOGENEOUS LAYER; 5.3 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A LAMINATE; 5.4 SYMMETRIC LAMINATES; 5.5 ENGINEERING STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF ORTHOTROPIC LAMINATES; 5.6 QUASI HOMOGENEOUS LAMINATES; 5.7 QUASI ISOTROPIC LAMINATES IN THE PLANE STRESS STATE; 5.8 ANTISYMMETRIC LAMINATES; 5.9 SANDWICH STRUCTURES 2.11 VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES2.12. Reference; Chapter 3 Mechanics of a unidirectional ply; 3.1 PLY ARCHITECTURE; 3.2 FIBER MATRIX INTERACTION; 3.3 MICROMECHANICS OF A PLY; 3.4 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A PLY UNDER TENSION SHEAR AND COMPRESSION; 3.5 HYBRID COMPOSITES; 3.6 COMPOSITES WITH HIGH FIBER FRACTION; 3.7 PHENOMENOLOGICAL HOMOGENEOUS MODEL OF A PLY; 3.8 References; Chapter 4 Mechanics of a composite layer; 4.1 ISOTROPIC LAYER; 4.2 UNIDIRECTIONAL ORTHOTROPIC LAYER; 4.3 UNIDIRECTIONAL ANISOTROPIC LAYER; 4.4 ORTHOGONALLY REINFORCED ORTHOTROPIC LAYER; 4.5 ANGLE PLY ORTHOTROPIC LAYER Chapter 8 Laminated composite beams and columns8.1 BASIC EQUATIONS; 8.2 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS; 8.3 BENDING OF LAMINATED BEAMS; 8.4 NONLINEAR BENDING; 8.5 BUCKLING OF COMPOSITE COLUMNS; 8.6 FREE VIBRATIONS OF COMPOSITE BEAMS; 8.7 REFINED THEORIES OF BEAMS AND PLATES; 8.8 References; Chapter 9 Laminated composite plates; 9.1 EQUATIONS OF THE THEORY OF ANISOTROPIC LAMINATED PLATES; 9.2 EQUATIONS FOR THE ORTHOTROPIC PLATES WITH SYMMETRIC STRUCTURE; 9.3 ANALYSIS OF THE EQUATIONS OF PLATE THEORY FOR TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC PLATES; 9.4 BENDING OF ORTHOTROPIC SYMMETRIC PLATES