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Stress, Vibration, and Wave Analysis in Aerospace Composites: SHM and NDE Applications presents a unified approach to studying and understanding stress, vibrations and waves in composite materials used in aerospace applications. Combining topics that are typically found across an array of various sources, the book starts by looking at the properties of various composite materials, progresses to coverage of an analysis of stress, vibration and waves and then concludes with a discussion of various structural health monitoring (SHM) and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques and applications based on the analysis developed earlier in the book. Every chapter of the book contains a variety of worked-out examples to illustrate and tie together underlying theory and specific applications. The MATLAB code used to generate these examples is available on the book's companion website, as are solution documents and additional MATLAB code for problems and exercises featured in each chapter.
List of contents
1. Introduction2. Fundamentals of Aerospace Composite Materials3. Stress Analysis of Aerospace Composite Materials4. Vibration Analysis of Aerospace Composite Materials5. Wave Propagation Analysis in Bulk Aerospace Composite Materials6. Guided Waves in Single-Layer Aerospace Composite Materials7. Guided Waves in Multi-Layer Aerospace Composite Materials8. Sensors for Aerospace Composites SHM and NDE9. Semi-Analytical Finite Element (SAFE) Guided Wave Solution in Aerospace Composites10. Applications to SHM of Aerospace Composite Materials11. Applications to NDE of Aerospace Composite Materials12. Summary, Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Work
About the author
Dr. Giurgiutiu is an expert in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). He leads the Laboratory for Active Materials and Smart Structures at the University of South Carolina. He received the award Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year 2003 and is Associate Editor of the international journal Structural Health Monitoring.
