Of fiber-reinforced composite materials

A.K Jain M P Debuisson. Segmentation of X-ray and C-scan Images of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials. Pattern Recognition, vol 25, N°.3, pp 257-270, 1992... 

Not all of the strength and stiffness advantages of fiber-reinforced composite materials can be transformed directly into structural advantages. Prominent among the reasons for this statement is the fact that the joints for members made of composite materials are typically more bulky than those for metal parts. These relative inefficiencies are being studied because they obviously affect the cost trade-offs for application of composite materials. Other limitations will be discussed subsequently. 

Robert M. Jones ar Harold S. Morgan, Analysis of Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials, AIAA Journal, December 1977, pp. 1669-1676. 

The nonlinear shear stress-shear strain behavior typical of fiber-reinforced composite materials is ignored, i.e., the behavior is regarded as linear. 

Prediction of the strength of fiber-reinforced composite materials has not achieved the near-esoteric levels of the stiffness predictions studied in the preceding sections. Nevertheless, there are many interesting physical models for the strength characteristics of a matrix reinforced by fibers. Most of the models represent a very high degree of integration of physical observation with the mechanical description of a phenomenon. 

Flammability Characteristics of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials... 

Wetherhold, R. C., Statistical distribution of strength of fiber-reinforced composite materials, Polym. Composites, 7, 116 (1986). 

Adams, D. F., Doner, D. R., Thomas, R. L. Mechanical Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, Air Force Materials Laboratory Report, AFML-TR-67-96 (1967)... 

YIELD CONDITION FOR A TUBE OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL... 

Bar-Cohen. Y. (1986), NDE of fiber-reinforced composite materials - A review. Materials Evaluation. March 1986. 44. 3. 446-454. 

Degrieck J, Van Paepegem W. Fatigue damage modelling of fiber-reinforced composite materials review. Appl Mech Rev 2001 54(4) 279—300. 

Brown believed that manufacturing 300 to 350 bicycles a day out of fiber-reinforced composite materials could expose the company... to significant product liability claims. (S95)... 

The failure of fiber-reinforced composite material usually starts with excessive deformation and crack formation within the cement matrix. In parallel, failure of the fiber reinforcement also gets under way. It may result either in a gradual pull-out of the fibers from the matrix as the width of the crack gradually increases, or in a tear of the fibers themselves at or in the vicinity of the crack. 

L DUandro, AT DiBenedetto, J Groeger. The effect of fiber-matrix stress transfer on the strength of fiber-reinforced composite materials. Polymer Composites 9 209-221, 1988. 

Laser welding has also been used for filament winding of fiber-reinforced composite materials with a thermoplastic prepreg. A defocused laser beam is directed on areas where the prepreg meets the winding as it is being built up. With suitable control over the winding speed, applied pressure, and the temperature of the laser, excellent reinforced structures of relatively complex shape can be achieved. 

Hyer, M.W. (1998) Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials. McGraw-Hill, New York. 

Di-Paolo, G., Kapoor, S.G. and Devor, R.E. (1996) An experimental investigation of the crack growth phenomenon for drilling of fiber reinforced composite materials,/Eng Ind Trans ASME, 118 104-10. 

Whitney, J.M., Daniel, I.M., and Pipes, R.B., Experimental Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, SESA Monograph No. 4, The Society for Experimental Stress Analysis, Brookfield Center, Connnecticut, 1982. 

Walrath, D.E. and Adams, D.F., Analysis of the Stress State in an losipescu Shear Test Specimen. Composite Materials Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, June 1983, Department Report UWME-DR-30I-I02-I. Whitney, J.M., Daniel, I.M. and Pipes, R.B., Experimental Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials. Society for Experimental Stress Analysis, 1982, Monograph 4. Brookfield Center, Connecticut, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1982. 

Gu J-D, Ford TE, Thorp KEG, Mitchell R (1995c) Microbial biodeterioration of fiber reinforced composite materials. In Angell P, Borenstein SW, Buchanan RA, Dexter SC, Downing NJE, Little BJ, Lundin CD, McNeil MB, Pope DH, Tatnall RE, White DC, Zigenfuss HG (eds) 1995 international conference on microbial influenced corrosion. NACE International, Houston TX 25/1-7 Gu J-D, Ford TE, Thorp KEG, Mitchell R (1995d) Microbial deterioration of fiber reinforced polymeric materials. In Scully J (ed) Corrosion/95, Research in progress symposium. NACE International, Houston, pp 16-17... 

The use of fiber-reinforced composite materials for pipeline repairs was developed during work at Southwest Research Institute and Battelle in the late 1980s (Fawley, 1994 Stephens and Kilinski, 1994). There are two basic types of composite repair systems preformed (composite sleeves) and wet lay-up (composite wraps). The first commercially available system was Clock Spring , which consists of an E-glass/polyester resin-based composite material preformed into a multilayer coil that is installed using an adhesive (Figure 4.4). 

The mechanical analysis of fiber-reinforced composite materials, which follows, is approached at three different levels ... 

Whitney, J. M., I. M. Danief and R. B. Pipes, Experimental Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, SEM Monograph No. 4, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Bethel, Connecticut, 1984. 

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