Composite materials : design and applications / Daniel Gay, Suong V. Hoa.

Original title: Matériaux composites

Contents 1 Composite materials, interest, and properties 2 Fabrication processes 3 Ply properties 4 Sandwich structures 5 Conception and design 6 Joining and assembly 7 Composite materials and aerospace construction 8 Composite materials for other applications 9 Anisotropic elastic media 10 Elastic constants of unidirectional composites 11 Elastic constants of a ply along an arbitrary direction 12 Mechanical behavior of thin laminated plates 13 Elastic coefficients 14 The Hill-Tsai failure criterion 15 Composite beams in flexure 16 Composite beams in torsion 17 Flexure of thick composite plates 18 Applications

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-543) and index.