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This book provides a compilation of innovative fabrication strategies and utilization methodologies that are frequently adopted in the advanced composite materials community.
It addresses developing appropriate composites to efficiently utilize macro- and nanoscale features. It covers a selection of key aspects of composite materials, including history, reinforcements, matrix materials, mechanical properties, physical properties, theory, and applications. The volume reviews the research developments of a number of widely studied composite materials with different matrices.
Key features of this book:
Contains new coverage of nanocomposites
Reflects the latest theoretical and engineering and industrial applications of composite materials
Provides design methods with numerical information and technical formulations needed for researchers
Presents a critical review of progress in research and development on composite materials
Offers comments on future research direction and ideas for product development
About the author
Alexander V. Vakhrushev, DSc, is a professor at the M.T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University in Russia, where he teaches theory, calculating, and design of nano- and microsystems. He is also the Chief Researcher of the Department of Information-Measuring Systems of the Institute of Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Department of Nanotechnology and Microsystems of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University. He has over 400 publications to his name, including monographs, articles, reports, reviews, and patents. He has received several awards, including an Academician A. F. Sidorov Prize from the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Honorable Scientist of the Udmurt Republic.
A. K. Haghi, PhD, is the author and editor of 165 books as well as of 1000 published papers in various journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Haghi has received several grants, consulted for a number of major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. Since 1983, he served as professor at several universities. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and the Polymers Research Journal and is on the editorial boards of many international journals. He is also a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences and Cultures (CRDCSC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Summary
This book provides a compilation of innovative fabrication strategies and utilization methodologies that are frequently adopted in the advanced composite materials community. It addresses developing appropriate composites to efficiently utilize macro- and nanoscale features.
