Advanced Structural Materials

A snapshot of the central ideas used to control fracture properties of engineered structural metallic materials, Advanced Structural Materials: Properties, Design Optimization, and Applications illustrates the critical role that advanced structural metallic materials play in aerospace, biomedical, automotive, sporting goods, and other indust

Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only

This useful collection presents fascinating reviews, and reports of recent investigations, related to advanced metallic, ceramic and composite structural materials. The topics covered include innovative processing techniques, phase transformations, mechanical properties and explorations of the relationship between processing methods, microstructure and mechanical behavior. The book will therefore be of great interest to anyone working in the preparation or use of advanced materials.

This useful collection presents fascinating reviews, and reports of recent investigations, related to advanced metallic, ceramic and composite structural materials. The topics covered include innovative processing techniques, phase transformations, mechanical properties and explorations of the relationship between processing methods, microstructure and mechanical behavior.

Composite materials have been representing most significant breakthroughs in various industrial applications, particularly in aerospace structures, during the past thirty five years. The primary goal of Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials is the combined presentation of advanced mechanics, manufacturing technology, and analysis of composite materials. This approach lets the engineer take into account the essential mechanical properties of the material itself and special features of practical implementation, including manufacturing technology, experimental results, and design characteristics. Giving complete coverage of the topic: from basics and fundamentals to the advanced analysis including practical design and engineering applications. At the same time including a detailed and comprehensive coverage of the contemporary theoretical models at the micro- and macro- levels of material structure, practical methods and approaches, experimental results, and optimisation of composite material properties and component performance. The authors present the results of more than 30 year practical experience in the field of design and analysis of composite materials and structures. * Eight chapters progressively covering all structural levels of composite materials from their components through elementary plies and layers to laminates* Detailed presentation of advanced mechanics of composite materials * Emphasis on nonlinear material models (elasticity, plasticity, creep) and structural nonlinearity

This collection comprises invited and contributed papers which were presented at the Advanced Structural Materials Symposium held in Cancún, México during the Annual Conference of the Mexican Academy of Materials Science. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only

The Industrial Revolution showed that the development and improvement of new materials and functions could bring about social change, and benefit human society. However, one can be forgiven for feeling that more recent materials research, particularly in the domain of metals, has focused only upon individual elemental characteristics and narrow specialty fields, and that the original vision of materials research has thus been lost.