Micromechanics of Composite Materials

• Main Author: Dvorak, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 186
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mechanics.; Continuum mechanics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.

This book presents a broad exposition of analytical and numerical methods for modeling composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, with emphasis on connections between material properties and responses on several length scales, ranging from the nano and microscales t...

Table of Contents:

• From the Content: History and overview
• Elastic constitutive relations
• Tensor component and matrix notations
• Decomposition of elastic constitutive relations
• Anisotropic elastic solids
• Elastic strain energy density
• Material symmetries
• Elements of material symmetry
• Triclinic materials
• Monoclinic materials
• Orthotropic material.-Trigonal and tetragonal materials
• Transversely isotropic or hexagonal materials
• Cubic materials
• Isotropic materials
• Transversely isotropic composite materials
• Engineering and Hill's moduli
• Walpole's notation
• Cylindrically orthotropic materials
• Young’s modulus.