Content
- Introduction to fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites (concept, examples, materials and their characteristics, manufacturing processes)
- Review of solid mechanics (CAUCHY stress tensor, HOOKE’s law in 3D for anisotropic material behaviour)
- CLASSICAL LAMINATE THEORY (coordinate transformation, stress-strain relationship for unidirectional plies and multi-layered structures)
- Stability failure of composite structures (review elastic stability theory, buckling and post-buckling of composite struts and plates)
- Material failure in composites (failure mechanisms in composites, failure criteria for orthotropic layers, physically-based failure models)