Properties for Design of Composite Structures. Neil McCartney

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Preface

      The effective properties of composite materials, such as thermoelastic and conductive, depend upon the nature of many materials’ characteristics, which are needed to account for the composite structure, e.g. particulate or fibre reinforcement, unidirectional plies or multi-layered laminates. Account also must be taken of the resultant anisotropies that are often required when designing three-dimensional engineering components. Indeed, the properties of some constituents can be anisotropic themselves, such as carbon fibres and the individual plies of laminates. The accurate experimental determination of these properties is rarely, if ever, achieved in practice, and this leads on to the need for reliable estimation methods using analytical and/or numerical methods.

      It is emphasised here that this book is not intended to be a reference text. The principal objective is to provide readers with a single source for a wealth of analytical methods and explicit formulae that can be used to estimate the effective properties of a wide range of composite types for both undamaged and damaged states. Readers wishing to track in more detail the historical development of composite theory will need to consult the literature, possibly starting with the limited number of references included in this book.

      This book has been written over a number of years following the encouragement of the late Professor Anthony Kelly, FRS, CBE, to whom the author owes an enormous debt of gratitude. Professor Kelly was the Chairman of the Panel at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that decided, in 1969, that the author, following six months’ probation, could be offered a permanent post. The author now has an Emeritus position at NPL (Senior NPL Fellow) that has enabled continued research on various aspects of material science, and the writing of this book. A much closer relationship developed when, in the early 1980s, we both independently solved a problem considered in Chapter 14. At that point and onwards Professor Kelly, who was then Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University, introduced the author to many theoretical aspects of composite technology, which are included in this book. Of particular note is the development of methods of analysing the effects of fibre fractures and matrix cracks in unidirectionally reinforced composites, extending the pioneering work of colleagues at NPL, which led to the very well-known ACK (Aveston, Cooper, Kelly) theory, developed in 1971, which continues to be widely cited in the literature.

Following the Introduction, Chapter 2 of this book introduces and describes in detail many continuum analyses that will be required in later chapters. Chapters 3–7 are concerned with a description of methods of estimating the effective properties of undamaged composite materials, including those reinforced with aligned spheroidal particles. Extensive use is made of the methodology developed