For decades, Composite Materials: Design and Applications has guided readers on the efficient design of structural composite parts and has illustrated challenges encountered in modern engineering practice. The Fourth Edition of this perennial best-seller, now including a foreword by Professor Stephen Tsai, retains its pedagogical structure, featuring a technical level that rises in difficulty as the text progresses, while allowing each part to be explored independently, but has been updated to mirror recent advances and developments in manufacturing processes and applications.

• Gives numerous examples of the pre-sizing of composite parts, processed from industrial cases and reworked to highlight key information
• Provides a design method to define composite multilayered plates under loading, along with all numerical information needed for implementation
• Includes test cases for the validation of computer software using finite elements
• Proposes original study of composite beams of any section shapes and of transverse shear behavior of laminates, leading to technical formulations that are not found in the literature
• Reflects the latest manufacturing processes and applications in the aerospace, automotive, naval, wind turbine, and sporting goods industries, and now features new details on the recycling of composites and additive manufacturing
• Offers new coverage of ceramic-matrix composites and new concepts for design of laminates, including Double-Double and tapered laminates by means of Tsai homogenization

This book serves as a textbook for advanced students studying composite materials design, as well as a handy reference for industry professionals working with composite materials.

Figure slides are available for qualifying adopting professors.

About the Author

Daniel Gay led the Laboratoire de Genie Mecanique de Toulouse, now the Institut Clement Ader, from its inception for over 15 years. A former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Dr. Gay has authored numerous articles, scientific publications, and industrial reports on composite materials and structures. He has taught at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels in many schools and institutions, including the Universite Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (UPS), Instituts Universitaires de Technologie (IUT), Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA), Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), and Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA).

Reviews

"Very good illustrations on the problem setup, theory, and physical representation. Very easy to follow."
-Dr. Gang Wang, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

"This book covers the topics related to the mechanics of composite materials in a very simple way. ... It is addressed to graduate and undergraduate students as well as to practical engineers who want to enhance their knowledge and learn the guidelines of the use of composite materials. ... This book is...a good classroom material...[and] a good reference."
-Dr. Pierre Rahme, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

"In this new edition of a truly innovative manual, the basic concepts of our new horizon for composite materials have been covered. They...should be learned and practiced. Students are encouraged to pay attention to the hard work of the author and gain confidence in composites to produce better aircraft and transportation systems....This is an excellent textbook for teaching and also a reference for practicing engineers. I highly recommend it."
-Stephen W. Tsai, Stanford University, California, USA

Book Information
ISBN 9781032043081
Author Daniel Gay
Format Hardback
Page Count 612
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1220g