Properties of Fibrous Composite Structures. Elastic Properties and Manufacturing of Composite Laminates

Document from the year 2022 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, Nile Valley University (Faculty of Engineering), language: English, abstract: The present text book comprises four chapters. Chapter one in this book includes an introduction to composite materials. The different topics in this chapter are discussed from the viewpoints of general introduction; historical background; composite materials; products of composite materials; overview of composite materials; cores in composites; and semi crystalline polymers. In chapter two, manufacturing and fabrication of composites is presented and discussed thoroughly from the consideration of methods of fabrication; overview of mold; other fabrication methods; and tooling. Chapter three deliberates the elastic properties of composites from the considerations of introduction; structure of composites; mechanical properties of a fiber reinforced lamina which includes stiffness and strength of a lamina, and analytical modeling of composite laminates. In chapter four, the most important findings and conclusions are presented and discussed. The textbook is suitable as a textbook for a first course as an introduction to fibrous composite laminated structures from the consideration of their elastic properties and fabrication. It can be used as a reference by engineers and scientists working in industry and academic institutions.

AUTHOR Osama Mohammed Elmardi Suleiman Khayal was born in Atbara, Sudan in 1966. He received his diploma degree in mechanical engineering from Mechanical Engineering College, Atbara, Sudan in 1990. He also received a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Sudan University of science and technology - Faculty of engineering in 1998, and a master degree in solid mechanics from Nile valley university (Atbara, Sudan) in 2003, and a PhD in structural engineering in 2017. He contributed in teaching some subjects in other universities such as Red Sea University (Port Sudan, Sudan), Kordofan University (Obayed, Sudan), Sudan University of Science and Technology (Khartoum, Sudan), Blue Nile University (Damazin, Sudan) and Kassala University (Kassala, Sudan). In addition, he supervised more than three hundred under graduate studies in diploma and B.Sc. levels and about thirty master theses. The author wrote about fifty engineering books written in Arabic language, and twenty books written in English language and more than hundred research papers in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, internal combustion engines and analysis of composite structures. He is currently an associated professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Nile Valley University Atbara, Sudan. His research interest and favorite subjects include structural mechanics, applied mechanics, control engineering and instrumentation, computer aided design, design of mechanical elements, fluid mechanics and dynamics, heat and mass transfer and hydraulic machinery. The author also works as a technical manager and superintendent of Al - Kamali mechanical and production workshops group which specializes in small, medium and large automotive overhaul maintenance and which situated in Atbara town in the north part of Sudan, River Nile State.