Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials (Relié)

The field of composite materials has attracted a wealth of research, with significant interest in the areas of damage, fatigue and failure. Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials is a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials. With a focus on materials modeling, chapters also review specific treatments to give the reader thorough direction for analyzing failure of composite structures.
Part One of the book reviews damage development in composite materials. Chapters examine generic damage, fatigue damage mechanisms, and damage accumulation in unidirectional composites, in textile composites and under multiaxial fatigue loading. Part Two focuses on the modeling of failure mechanisms in composite materials with chapters on matrix and fiber-matrix interface cracking and debonding under axial and transverse loading, multiple matrix cracking, debonding induced by fiber failure, and compression failure.
Part Three examines the modeling of damage and materials response in composite materials, including micro-level and multi-scale approaches. The final part of the book covers the failure analysis of composite materials and joints, and discusses the applications of predictive failure models. Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials is an invaluable reference for industrial and academic researchers working in composite materials, and structural designers in aeronautical, automotive and energy applications.
Ramesh Talreja is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. Professor Talreja's research includes work on damage mechanics and fatigue of composite materials, and structural reliability. Janis Varna is a professor in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics at Lulei University of Technology, Sweden. Professor Varna's research focuses on polymeric composite materials.