Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology III

by Suresh Advani (Editor), W.R. Blain (Editor), W.P. de Wilde (Editor), J.W. Gillespie (Editor), O.H. Griffin (Editor)

Overview

Co-published with Computational Mechanics Publications, UK. Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computer Aided Technology Design in Composite Material Technology, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, May 1992.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851667819
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/30/1992
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	636
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Section 1: Manufacturing and Processing.- Numerical Modeling of Sheet Forming Processes for Thermoplastic Composites.- Computer Simulation of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Fiber Suspensions.- On the Optimization of the Fiber Reinforced Composites Manufacturing Process with Two Pressure Steps.- Computer-Assisted Cure Cycle Design, Monitoring, Control and Post-Fabrication Damage Assessment in Thermoset Composites.- Design and Automated Fabrication of 3-D Braided Preforms for Advanced Structural Composites.- Mechanical Behaviour of Filament Wound Carbon Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Resin Tubes.- Void Formation and Growth in Thermoplastic Processing.- Simulation of Mold Filling in Resin Transfer Molding by Non-Conforming Finite Elements.- Resin Transfer Moulding for Automobile Manufacture: Reality and Simulation.- Computer-Aided Grid Strain Analysis in Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Sheet Forming.- Incremental Deformation Studies During Matched-Die-Forming of Continuous Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Polypropylene Laminates.- Numerical Simulation of Fibre Reorientation in a Squeezing Flow and other Flow Geometries using an Explicit Projection Method.- Contribution to the Study of the Delamination of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Laminated Composites during Piercing and Cutting by Hydro Jet Machining (HJM) and Hydro Abrasive Jet Machining (HAJM).- Section 2: Stress Analysis.- FE- Modeling of the Three-Dimensional Stress Field in a Plasticising Short Fibre Reinforced Composite.- Prediction of Process-Induced Stresses for In-Situ Thermoplastic Filament Winding of Cylinders.- Three Dimensional Composite Elements for Finite Element Analysis of Anistropic Laminated Structures.- Numerical and Experimental Stress Analyses of Bovine Femur for Determining the Mechanical Properties of Calcium-Phosphate Ceramic as an Artificial Bone Implant.- Section 3: Effects of Defects.- Microcrack-Interaction Induced Toughening in Ceramics and Advanced Composites.- The Torsional Fatigue Behaviour of the In-Plane Shear Modulus of Composite Materials.- Modelling of the Evolution of Interface Conditions in Adhesively Bonded Joints with Probabilistic Techniques.- Section 4: Computer Aided Design.- Analysis Idealization Control for Composite Materials with Nonlinear Behavior.- COMPO: A System for CAD of Composite Materials.- A Viscoelastic Analysis Computer Program (VCAP) for Computer Aided Design of Composites on a “PC”.- The Role of Expert and Decision Support Systems in Composites Design and Manufacturing.- Prediction of Fiber Orientation and Mechanical Properties in Short-Fiber Reinforced Injection-Molded Composites.- Section 5: Numerical Techniques.- 3-D Simulation of Fiber-Fluid Interactions During Composite Manufacturing Using The Galerkin Boundary Element Method.- A First Modified Local Green’s Function Method Approach to Orthotropic Laminated Plates.- Finite Element Analysis of Smart Structures.- Modelization of Coherent Interfaces by Mixed Finite Elements.- Section 6: Structural Applications and Optimization.- Computer Aided Design of FRP Sulcated Springs.- Optimum Design of Laminated Composite Material Structures.- Optimal Design of Prestressed Concrete Composite Slab by Geometric Programming.- Design and Calculation of Structures Composed of Plates and Pillars with Rigid Joints.- Structural Behaviour of Hybrid Composite Domes.- Analysis and Design of Composites Scarf Joints.- Integration of Processing Models with Control and Optimization of Polymer Composites Fabrication.- Section 7: Thermomechemical Properties.- Micromechanical Simulation ofThermo-Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Woven-Fabric Composites.- Solid Modeling of Fabric-Like Structures.- The Influence of Aspect Ratio Distributions on the Thermoelastic Properties of Short-Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials.- Identification of the Complex Moduli of Composite Materials.- A Finite Element Model for Moisture Ab-/Desorption in Polymeric Matrix Based on Composite Materials.- A Finite Element Approach for Thermal-Structural Response in Fibre Reinforced Composite Systems.- Computation of Micromechanical Models for the Transport Properties of Particulate Composite Media.- Thermoelastic Stress Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Composite Systems.- Author’s Index.