Inelastic Deformation of Composite Materials IUTAM Symposium, Troy, New York, May 29 – June 1, 1990

Polymer composites were introduced for the aerospace industry as light, strong, stiff materials, and adopted by the construction and automobile industries, among others. Meanwhile, composite materials have been introduced to fulfill the uses that these conventional materials could not, such as in ex...

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Other Authors: Dvorak, George J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:IUTAM Symposia, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Polymer composites were introduced for the aerospace industry as light, strong, stiff materials, and adopted by the construction and automobile industries, among others. Meanwhile, composite materials have been introduced to fulfill the uses that these conventional materials could not, such as in extreme environments. The research for new composites includes not only new polymer systems, but metals, ceramics and intermetallic systems as well. This volume contains a selection of recent work by leading researchers in micromechanics on the topics of prediction of overall properties of elastic, perfectly bonded systems, problems associated with inelastic deformation of the phase, debonding at interfaces and growth of distributed damage. Many familiar aspects of mechanical behavior, such as fatigue, fracture, strength and buckling, etc. have been reexamined and adapted for these new systems
Physical Description:XIV, 779 p online resource
ISBN:9781461391098