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Engineering Materials: Composites
Engineering Materials: Composites
Composites
James Marrow
Composites
Overview:
Fibre Reinforced Composites
Particle Reinforced Composites
Structural Composites
Processing
Applications
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Continuous aligned.
Discontinuous and
aligned
Discontinuous and
randomly oriented
Ec Em 1 V f E f V f
Isostrain conditions
Fc Fm F f
c m f
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Ec
Em E f
EmV f E f Vm
Isostress conditions
c m f
c Vm m V f f
Matrix yields
Stage II
Fibres fracture
Discontinuous Fibre
Composites
Discontinuous fibre
composites (aligned
fibres)
Concrete
SiC-Aluminium
Polymers
Small Particles
(Dispersion)
Oxide disperion in
aluminium
Thoria in Nickel
Al-SiC
WC-Co
Polymers
Carbon in rubber
Particle reinforced metal
matrix composite
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Structural Composites
Laminar Composites
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Structural Composites
Sandwich Panels
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Summary
Composites are artificial, multiphase
materials which combine the best properties
of both phases.
Reinforcement is greatest for fibres, but
processing is easiest for particles.
Composites are engineered structural
materials
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