Synopses & Reviews
Understand, diagnose - and avoid - composite materials. Whether you're a designer focused on prevention, or a trouble-shooting detective trying to piece together what went wrong, engineers who work with industrial composite materials applications will find all the answers in this comprehensive, state-of-the-art compendium. Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials spotlights every aspect of fracture and failure (including avoidance) in those ever-more-important polymer, ceramic, and metal matrix materials. Spanning the entire spectrum of failures and fractures, this task-simplifying resource covers the many details of evaluation, specific causes and conditions, materials, and applications, as documented by international leaders in the field. You get all the easy-to-implement information you need on: the latest testing and analysis procedures; detailed data on the complete range of causes of fractures and failures in a broad range of materials; engineering confidence levels and their determination; design criteria for the complete range of materials and applications; specific case studies in aerospace, construction, and medical engineering. From crack initiation to crack growth, from notch-size effect to damage-tolerant design, this important new reference supplies quality and safety assurance and support to engineers who design and work with composites. Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials is an all-in-one tool packed with facts, guidance, and foresight you'll be glad to have on the job, for project large and small.