Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Local Mechanics Concepts for Composite Material Systems

IUTAM Symposium Blacksburg, VA 1991

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

Overview

Editors:
  1. J. N. Reddy

    1. Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. K. L. Reifsnider

    1. Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: IUTAM Symposia (IUTAM)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Axisymmetric Micromechanical Stress Fields in Composites

    • N. J. Pagano
    Pages 1-26

  3. Analytical Modeling of Micromechanical Stress Variations in Continuos Fiber-Reinforced Composites

    • R. C. Averill, G. P. Carman
    Pages 27-61

  4. Some Aspects of Continuum Damage Mechanics Applied to Polymer and Ceramic Matrix Composites

    • Ramesh Talreja
    Pages 63-79

  5. Micromechanics as a Basis for Damage Mechanics

    • D. H. Allen, J. G. Boyd
    Pages 81-95

  6. Micromechanics for Performance Simulation

    • Ken Reifsnider, Zhanjun Gao
    Pages 97-115

  7. On Statistical Micromechanical Theories for Brittle Solids with Interacting Microcracks

    • J. W. Ju
    Pages 117-139

  8. Fibre Composites: Mesomechanics and Mesostructures

    • M. R. Piggott
    Pages 141-148

  9. Matrix Cracking and Interphase Failure in Fiber Composites

    • J. D. Achenbach, H. S. Choi
    Pages 149-163

  10. An Experimental Element Technique for Transverse Fracture in CFRP and GFRP

    • Piet W. M. Peters
    Pages 165-178

  11. Interaction of Fatigue Mechanisms During Crack Growth in Arall

    • R. Marissen
    Pages 179-197

  12. Deformation of a Meta-Ceramic Composite with a Crystal Matrix: Reinforcement Distribution Effects

    • A. Needleman, S. Suresh, V. Tvergaard
    Pages 199-213

  13. An Energy Based Model for the Influence of the Fibre-Matrix Interface Strength on the Interlaminar Fracture Toughness of UD-Composite Laminates

    • J. Ivens, M. Wevers, I. Verpoest
    Pages 215-228

  14. Analysis of Local Buckling in Viscoelastic Composites

    • R. A. Schapery
    Pages 229-250

  15. Analytical Models of Stress Transfer in Unidirectional Composites and Cross-Ply Laminates, and Their Application to the Prediction of Matrix/Transverse Cracking

    • L. N. McCartney
    Pages 251-282

  16. Local Stresses and Thermoelastic Properties of Composite Laminates Containing Micro Cracks

    • Peter Gudmundson, Sören Östlund, Weilin Zang
    Pages 283-308

  17. Analysis of Interlaminar Stresses and Failures Using a Layer-Wise Laminate Theory

    • D. H. Robbins, Y. S. N. Reddy, J. N. Reddy
    Pages 309-339

  18. Green’s Function Method for Calculation of Stress Fields in Composite Materials

    • V. K. Tewary, R. D. Kriz
    Pages 341-353

  19. Spline Function Aided Analysis of Inhomogeneous Materials and Structures

    • Alexander E. Bogdanovich
    Pages 355-382

  20. Symbolic Algebra Approach to Composite Materials Analysis

    • Seiichi Nomura
    Pages 383-393
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The application of composite materials to engineering components has spurred a ma­ jor effort to analyze such materials and the structures made from them. Most researchers workin~ in mechanics of composite structures understand that composite materials pro­ vide umque advantages but also present complex and challenging problems to researchers. The complex inelastic behavior and variety of failure modes of composite structures are a result of the strength and stiffness properties of constituents and their complex interac­ tions. Macromechanical constitutive models based on gross composite properties cannot realistically represent local interactions, and thus have serious limitations. The composite materials that are of most interest to engineering applications are often "brittle" in their behavior, in the sense that the strength and life of the material systems is controlled or greatly influenced by events or processes which involve volumes of material whose dimen­ sions are small compared to the global dimensions of the element. This is also true in ductile systems where local nonlinearity may contribute to local behavior which controls global response.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    J. N. Reddy, K. L. Reifsnider

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Local Mechanics Concepts for Composite Material Systems

  • Book Subtitle: IUTAM Symposium Blacksburg, VA 1991

  • Editors: J. N. Reddy, K. L. Reifsnider

  • Series Title: IUTAM Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84792-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-84794-3Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-84792-9Published: 08 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 412

  • Topics: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation