Composite Structures 3

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Plenary Session

   1. Durability Predictions of Adhesively Bonded Composite Structures Using Accelerated Characterization Methods

      • Hal F. Brinson

      Pages 1-18

   2. Structural Automotive Components in Fibre Reinforced Plastics

      • A. J. Wootton, J. C. Hendry, A. K. Cruden, J. D. A. Hughes

      Pages 19-42

3. Fatigue Studies

   1. Optimization of Fibre Reinforced Composite Laminates Subject to Fatigue Loading

      • S. Adali

      Pages 43-55

   2. Damage Development in Notched Carbon Fibre Composites Subjected to Fatigue Loading

      • S. Kellas, J. Morton, S. M. Bishop

      Pages 56-68

   3. Fatigue Scatter of UD Glass Epoxy, a Fact or Fiction?

      • P. M. Barnard, R. J. Butler, P. T. Curtis

      Pages 69-82

4. Aerospace Aspects

   1. The Material Development, Component Manufacture and Post-service Evaluation of RB 211–524 Cowl Doors Utilising Carbon Fibre Composite Materials

      • G. A. Owens

      Pages 83-99

   2. Thermal Engineering of Spacecraft Composite Structures

      • Robert D. Karam

      Pages 100-117

   3. Structural Certification and In-service Flight Experience of the RB 211–524 Fan Cowl Doors Utilising Carbon Fibre Composite Materials

      • B. P. Broadley

      Pages 118-134

5. Design (1)—General Principles

   1. A Structural Analysis Code Selection Criterion

      • J. A. Nachlas, R. T. Brown

      Pages 135-147

   2. Optimum Design of Composite Structures

      • Stevan Maksimović

      Pages 148-158

   3. Integrated Design of Composite and Hybrid Structural Elements

      • Albert H. Cardon

      Pages 159-163

6. Design (2)—Examples

   1. FRP Geodesic Domes: One Example

      • Trevor F. Starr

      Pages 164-177

   2. Composite-oriented Variable Section Design and Buckling Strength of Long Columns

      • Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Tatsumi Sakurai

      Pages 178-188

   3. Design Details of Integral Flanges for the Ends of Very Large Composite Fiber Structures

      • J. Lowrie McLarty

      Pages 189-203

7. Automotive Aspects

   1. Finite Element Computation of Cord-Rubber Systems

      • Rolf Gall

      Pages 204-218

   2. Composites in Engineering: Four Years of Progress?

      • John Humphreys

      Pages 219-229

8. Cementatious Composites

   1. Some Mechanical Properties of Glass Reinforced Concrete at Elevated Temperatures

      • J. A. Purkiss

      Pages 230-241

   2. Melt Extract Fibre Reinforced Sprayed Concrete

      • P. J. Robins, S. A. Austin

      Pages 242-253

   3. The Stiffness and Strength of Small Diameter Steel Fibres in Cementitious Composites

      • C. K. Jolly

      Pages 254-265

The papers contained herein were presented at the Third International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/3) held at Paisley College of Technology, Paisley, Scotland, in September 1985. The Conference was organised and sponsored by Paisley College of Technology. It was co­ sponsored by the Scottish Development Agency, the National Engineering Laboratory, the USAF European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, and the US Army Research, Development and Standard­ isation Group-UK. It forms a natural and ongoing progression from the highly successful First and Second International Conferences on Composite Structures (ICCS/l and ICCS/2) held at Paisley in 1981 and 1983, respectively. To label composites as rather specialised, sophisticated, space-age structural materials would be to underestimate greatly their wider industrial potential. It is unquestionably true that they will play an increasingly dominant, if not decisive, role in aerospace engineering. Indeed a future aircraft industry without composites as the prime structural materials is inconceivable. However, in an energy-conscious world the high specific weights and stiffnesses of composites make them an attractive proposition in every sphere of transportation engineering. This fact is soundly underlined in one of the Plenary papers contained herein and in one of the sessions devoted to this subject. I t would also be a considerable mistake to interpret composites as simply lightweight alternatives to conventional metallic structural materials.

• composite
• composite material
• deformation
• fatigue
• fracture mechanics
• glass
• modeling
• structural analysis

• Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Paisley College of Technology, Scotland

  I. H. Marshall

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