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Updated and improved, Stress
Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials, Hyer's work remains the
definitive introduction to the use of mechanics to understand stresses in composites
caused by deformations, loading, and temperature changes. In contrast to a materials
science approach, Hyer emphasizes the micromechanics of stress and deformation
for composite material analysis. The book provides invaluable analytic tools for
students and engineers seeking to understand composite properties and failure
limits.
A key feature is a series of analytic problems continuing throughout the text,
starting from relatively simple problems, which are built up step-by-step with
accompanying calculations. The problem series uses the same material properties,
so the impact of the elastic and thermal expansion properties for a single-layer
of FR material on the stress, strains, elastic properties, thermal expansion
and failure stress of cross-ply and angle-ply symmetric and unsymmetric laminates
can be evaluated. The book shows how thermally induced stresses and strains
due to curing, add to or subtract from those due to applied loads. Another important
element, and one unique to this book, is an emphasis on the difference between
specifying the applied loads, i.e., force and moment results, often the case
in practice, versus specifying strains and curvatures and determining the subsequent
stresses and force and moment results. This represents a fundamental distinction
in solid mechanics.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Updated Version
Preface to the Original Edition
- Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials
- Linear Elastic Stress-Strain Characteristics of Fiber-Reinforced Material
- Prediction of Engineering Properties Using Micromechanics
- The Plane-Stress Assumption
- Plane-Stress Stress-Strain Relations in a Global Coordinate System
- Classical Lamination Theory: The Kirchhoff Hypothesis
- Classical Lamination Theory: Laminate Stiffness Matrix
- Classical Lamination Theory: Additional Examples
- Failure Theories for Fiber-Reinforced Materials: Maximum Stress Criterion
- Failure Theories for Fiber-Reinforced Materials: The Tsai-Wu Criterion
- Environmentally Induced Stresses in Laminates
- Through-Thickness Laminate Strains
- Introduction to Fiber-Reinforced Laminated Plates
- Appendix: Manufacturing Composite Laminates
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