Analysis, Design and Optimization of Composite Structures

Rapidly varying material and geometrical characteristics of composite materials and structures do not allow the direct study of their mechanical behavior even with the use of modern computers.

The significant increase in the use of composite materials in all phases of structures, from spacecraft to marine vessels, from bridges and domes on civil buildings to sporting goods, has called for the development of rigorous mathematical methods capable of modelling, designing and optimizing composites under any given set of conditions. This book provides solutions to many problems in the analysis of the effective and local properties of composite structures, as well as to problems of their design and optimization on account of strength, stiffness and weight minimization requirements. The numerous results are presented in the form of analytical formulas or numerical algorithms. Programs providing numerical solutions to many engineering analysis, design and optimization problems for the composite and reinforced structures, including fibre-reinforced materials, laminated and angle-ply shells and plates, ribbed, wafer and honeycomb-like composite shells and plates, are available on the Internet

Aus dem Inhalt:
The Mathematical Theory of Finite Elements;
Engineering and Scientific Applications of Finite Elements;
Computational Techniques for Finite Element Methods;
Techniques for Large-scale Finite Element Analyses (including parallel and vector processing);
Theory, Implementation and Applications of Related Methods (finite volume methods, boundary elements, discrete elements).