Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition

Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition

by Christos Kassapoglou
Released June 2013
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781118401606

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Book description

New edition updated with additional exercises and two new chapters.

Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition builds on the first edition and includes two new chapters on composite fittings and the design of a composite panel, as well additional exercises. The book enables graduate students and engineers to generate meaningful and robust designs of complex composite structures. A compilation of analysis and design methods for structural components made of advanced composites, it begins with simple parts such as skins and stiffeners and progresses through to applications such as entire components of fuselages and wings. It provides a link between theory and day-to-day design practice, using theory to derive solutions that are applicable to specific structures and structural details used in industry.

Starting with the basic mathematical derivation followed by simplifications used in real-world design, Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition presents the level of accuracy and range of applicability of each method along with design guidelines derived from experience combined with analysis. The author solves in detail examples taken from actual applications to show how the concepts can be applied, solving the same design problem with different methods based on different drivers (e.g. cost or weight) to show how the final configuration changes as the requirements and approach change. Each chapter is followed by exercises that represent specific design problems often encountered in the aerospace industry but which are also applicable in the in the automotive, marine, and construction industries.

  • Updated to include additional exercises, that represent real design problems encountered in the aerospace industry, but which are also applicable in the in the automotive, marine, and construction industries.

  • Includes two new chapters. One on composite fittings and another on application and the design of a composite panel.

  • Provides a toolkit of analysis and design methods that enable engineers and graduate students to generate meaningful and robust designs of complex composite structures.

  • Provides solutions that can be used in optimization schemes without having to run finite element models at each iteration; thus speeding up the design process and allowing the examination of many more alternatives than traditional approaches.

  • Supported by a complete set of lecture slides and solutions to the exercises hosted on a companion website for instructors.

An invaluable resource for Engineers and graduate students in aerospace engineering as well as Graduate students and engineers in mechanical, civil and marine engineering.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Aerospace Series List
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. About the Author
  6. Series Preface
  7. Preface to First Edition
  8. Preface to Second Edition
  9. Chapter 1: Applications of Advanced Composites in Aircraft Structures
    1. References
  10. Chapter 2: Cost of Composites: a Qualitative Discussion
    1. 2.1 Recurring Cost
    2. 2.2 Nonrecurring Cost
    3. 2.3 Technology Selection
    4. 2.4 Summary and Conclusions
    5. Exercises
    6. References
  11. Chapter 3: Review of Classical Laminated Plate Theory
    1. 3.1 Composite Materials: Definitions, Symbols and Terminology
    2. 3.2 Constitutive Equations in Three Dimensions
    3. 3.3 Constitutive Equations in Two Dimensions: Plane Stress
    4. Exercises
    5. References
  12. Chapter 4: Review of Laminate Strength and Failure Criteria
    1. 4.1 Maximum Stress Failure Theory
    2. 4.2 Maximum Strain Failure Theory
    3. 4.3 Tsai–Hill Failure Theory
    4. 4.4 Tsai–Wu Failure Theory
    5. 4.5 Puck Failure Theory
    6. 4.6 Other Failure Theories
    7. References
  13. Chapter 5: Composite Structural Components and Mathematical Formulation
    1. 5.1 Overview of Composite Airframe
    2. 5.2 Governing Equations
    3. 5.3 Reductions of Governing Equations: Applications to Specific Problems
    4. 5.4 Energy Methods
    5. Exercises
    6. References
  14. Chapter 6: Buckling of Composite Plates
    1. 6.1 Buckling of Rectangular Composite Plate under Biaxial Loading
    2. 6.2 Buckling of Rectangular Composite Plate under Uniaxial Compression
    3. 6.3 Buckling of Rectangular Composite Plate under Shear
    4. 6.4 Buckling of Long Rectangular Composite Plates under Shear
    5. 6.5 Buckling of Rectangular Composite Plates under Combined Loads
    6. 6.6 Design Equations for Different Boundary Conditions and Load Combinations
    7. Exercises
    8. References
  15. Chapter 7: Post-Buckling
    1. 7.1 Post-Buckling Analysis of Composite Panels under Compression
    2. 7.2 Post-Buckling Analysis of Composite Plates under Shear
    3. Exercises
    4. References
  16. Chapter 8: Design and Analysis of Composite Beams
    1. 8.1 Cross-Section Definition Based on Design Guidelines
    2. 8.2 Cross-Sectional Properties
    3. 8.3 Column Buckling
    4. 8.4 Beam on an Elastic Foundation under Compression
    5. 8.5 Crippling
    6. 8.6 Importance of Radius Regions at Flange Intersections
    7. 8.7 Inter-Rivet Buckling of Stiffener Flanges
    8. 8.8 Application: Analysis of Stiffeners in a Stiffened Panel under Compression
    9. Exercises
    10. References
  17. Chapter 9: Skin–Stiffened Structure
    1. 9.1 Smearing of Stiffness Properties (Equivalent Stiffness)
    2. 9.2 Failure Modes of a Stiffened Panel
    3. 9.3 Additional Considerations for Stiffened Panels
    4. Exercises
    5. References
  18. Chapter 10: Sandwich Structure
    1. 10.1 Sandwich Bending Stiffnesses
    2. 10.2 Buckling of Sandwich Structure
    3. 10.3 Sandwich Wrinkling
    4. 10.4 Sandwich Crimping
    5. 10.5 Sandwich Intracellular Buckling (Dimpling) under Compression
    6. 10.6 Attaching Sandwich Structures
    7. Exercises
    8. References
  19. Chapter 11: Composite Fittings
    1. 11.1 Challenges in Creating Cost- and Weight-Efficient Composite Fittings
    2. 11.2 Basic Fittings
    3. 11.3 Other Fittings
    4. Exercises
    5. References
  20. Chapter 12: Good Design Practices and Design ‘Rules of Thumb’
    1. 12.1 Layup/Stacking Sequence-Related
    2. 12.2 Loading and Performance-Related
    3. 12.3 Guidelines Related to Environmental Sensitivity and Manufacturing Constraints
    4. 12.4 Configuration and Layout-Related
    5. Exercises
    6. References
  21. Chapter 13: Application – Design of a Composite Panel
    1. 13.1 Monolithic Laminate
    2. 13.2 Stiffened Panel Design
    3. 13.3 Sandwich Design
    4. 13.4 Cost Considerations
    5. 13.5 Comparison and Discussion
    6. References
  22. Index

Product information

  • Title: Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): Christos Kassapoglou
  • Release date: June 2013
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781118401606