The Behavior of Structures Composed of Composite Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction To Composite Materials

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 1-38

3. Anisotropic Elasticity and Composite Laminate Theory

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 39-86

4. Plates and Panels of Composite Materials

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 87-153

5. Beams Columns and Rods of Composite Materials

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 155-213

6. Composite Material Shells

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 215-258

7. Energy Methods for Composite Material Structures

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 259-301

8. Strength and Failure Theories

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 303-332

9. Joining of Composite Material Structures

   • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

   Pages 333-359

10. Introduction to Composite Design

    • Jack R. Vinson, Robert L. Sierakowski

    Pages 361-373

11. Back Matter

    Pages 375-435

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Composite structures and products have developed tremendously since the publication of the first edition of this work in 1986. This new edition of the now classic 1986 text has been written to educate the engineering reader in the various aspects of mechanics for using composite materials in the design and analysis of composite structures and products. Areas dealt with include manufacture, micromechanical properties, structural design, joints and bonding and a much needed introduction to composite design philosophy. Each chapter is concluded by numerous problems suitable for home assignments or examination. A solution guide is available on request from the authors.

• composite
• composite material
• composite materials
• elasticity
• mechanics
• micromechanics
• polymer

This book is probably the most informative and highly helpful work on the subject of structural aspects of composites, and merits an honored place in the study of every student and researcher associated with composites. Practicing composite structures engineers dealing with composites cannot fail to find much of interest and motivate them in this volume. It demands a place in their libraries. Indeed a worthwhile investment that continues the level of excellence associated with the earlier edition. – Current Engineering Practice, vol. 47, 2004.

• The Center for Composite Materials and The College of Marine Studies Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, U.S.A

  Jack R. Vinson

• AFRL/MN Eglin AFB, Florida, U.S.A

  Robert L. Sierakowski

Dr. Vinson is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Delaware. In 1977 he received the ONR-AIAA Structural Mechanics Award for his research in composite materials, and in 1981 he was awarded an ASME Centennial Award. He is active as a consultant to government and industry. He recently received a Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for 1985. He has been Chairman of the American Organizing Committee for the Japan-United States Conferences on Composite Materials three times (1981, 1983 and 1986). Dr. Sierakowski is Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. He has held many academic and industrial posts in the United States and has been a National Research Council Senior Research Fellow, a consultant to Air Force Laboratories, and a Visiting Professor at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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