Mechanics of Laminated Composite Structures [Hardcover]

In this textbook for students of laminated composite materials, composite structures, and anisotropic elasticity, Chyanbin Hwu draws on more than 3 decades of research and applications experience to provide a leading resource on many unique topics related to laminated composite structures

Chyanbin Hwu is Chair Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He earned a BS at National Taiwan University, ROC, in 1981; an MS at National Tsing-Hua University, ROC, in 1985; and a PhD in engineering mechanics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, United States, in 1988. He was elected the president of the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ROC) in 2008. He is a fellow of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Society (ROC) and the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ROC).

In this textbook for students of laminated composite materials, composite structures, and anisotropic elasticity, Chyanbin Hwu draws on more than three decades of research and applications experience to provide a leading resource on many unique topics related to laminated composite structures.

This book introduces the mechanical behavior of laminated composite materials and provides related theories and solutions. All basic structural elements such as beams, plates, and shells are described in detail. Further contents include composite sandwich construction and composite wing structures. To connect with practical engineering applications and analyze more complicated real structures, numerical methods and their theoretical basis in anisotropic elasticity are also included. Advanced topics addressed include solutions for magneto-electro-elastic laminated plates; Greens functions for thick laminated plates and beams; typical thick laminated beams; theory for general laminated composite shells; sandwich beams, plates,lÃn