JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Introduction to Composite Materials: Classification and characteristics, Mechanical behavior of composite materials, Basic terminology, Manufacture of laminated fiber- reinforced composite materials, Current and potential advantages of fiber-reinforced composite materials, Applications of composite materials.

UNIT - II

Macromechanical Behavior of a Lamina: Introduction, Stress-strain relations for anisotropic materials, Stiffnesses, compliances, and engineering constants for orthotropic materials, Restrictions on engineering constants, Stress-strain relations for plane stress in an orthotropic material, Stress-strain relations for a lamina of arbitrary orientation, Invariant properties of an Orthotropic lamina, Strengths of an Orthographic lamina, Biaxial strength criteria for an Orthotropic lamina.

UNIT - III

Micromechanical and Macromechanical behavior of lamina: Introduction, Mechanics of materials approach to stiffness, Elasticity approach to stiffness, Comparison of approaches to stiffness, Mechanics of materials approach to strength. Introduction, Classical lamination theory, Special cases of laminate stiffness, theoretical versus measured laminate stiffness, Strength of laminates, Inter-laminar stresses.

UNIT - IV

Bending and Buckling of Laminated Plates: Introduction, Governing equations, Deflection of simply supported laminated plates, under distributed transverse load, buckling of simply supported laminated plates under in-plane load.

UNIT - V

Introduction to Design of Composite Structures: Introduction to structural design, Materials selection, Configuration selection, Laminate joints, Design requirements and design failure criteria, Optimization concepts, Design analysis philosophy for composite structures.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Mechanics of Composite Materials, Robert. M. Jones, Second Edition, Taylor and Francis, 1999.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Mechanics of Fibrous composites- Carl. T. Herakovich-John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
• 2. Advanced Composite Materials, Lalit Gupta, Himalayan Books. New Delhi, 1998. R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.