Overview
- Updated and enlarged fourth edition of a widely used text
- Offers integrated and completely up-to-date coverage of composite materials
- New material including plenty of new exercises and illustrations, and new chapters on fatigue and creep of composites
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Table of contents(16 chapters)
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Part I
About this book
The fourth edition of Krishan Chawla's widely used textbook, Composite Materials, offers integrated and completely up-to-date coverage of composite materials. The book focuses on the triad of processing, structure, and properties, while providing a well-balanced treatment of the materials science and mechanics of composites. In this edition of Composite Materials, revised and updated throughout, increasing use of composites in industry (especially aerospace and energy) and new developments in the field are highlighted. New material on the advances in non-conventional composites (which covers polymer, metal and ceramic matrix nanocomposites), self-healing composites, self-reinforced composites, biocomposites and laminates made of metals and polymer matrix composites is included. Examples of practical applications in various fields are provided throughout the book, with extensive references to the literature. The book is intended for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses and as a reference for the practicing engineers and researchers in industry and academia.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Krishan K. Chawla
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Composite Materials
Book Subtitle: Science and Engineering
Authors: Krishan K. Chawla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28983-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28982-9Published: 19 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28985-0Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28983-6Published: 17 December 2019
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XXX, 560
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 234 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Engineering Design, Polymer Sciences, Civil Engineering