Structural Integrity and Monitoring for Composite Materials

The book focuses on the recent technology and advancement in structural integrity and monitoring systems in composite materials. Composites have been widely used in automotive, aerospace and wind turbine industries, therefore it is important to develop state of the art technology to monitor and manage the damage tolerance and durability. This book explores the challenge of a monitoring system in a composite and presents a real-time system which has advantages for damage detection, localization, assessment and life prediction compared to the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). It will also present the modelling and prediction of failure in a composite material based on computational analysis of the characteristics and properties of the composite material based on fiber and matrix properties. This book will benefit lecturers, students, researchers, engineers and industrialist who are working in the civil, mechanical engineering, automotive, aerospace and wind turbine industries.

Inhalt
Natural fiber for composite structural application.- Synthetic, hybrid and natural and composite recycling and fabrication process.- Experimental characterization for natural fiber and hybrid composite.- Structural Health Monitoring approach on synthetic and natural fiber reinforced composite Materials.- Condition Monitoring of biocomposite Materials for civil application.- Structural Health Monitoring of biocomposite Materials for aerospace application.- Structural Health Monitoring of biocomposite Materials for wind turbine application.- Modeling of damage evaluation and failure of laminated composite materials.- Structural impact localization based on multi-agent system for composite materials.- Damage detection in laminated composite plates via an optimal wavelet selection criterion.- Damage detection using coherence statistical analysis for composite structures.- Metal matrix composite and aluminium based matrix composite for automotive components.- Improving mechanical propertiesof particulate reinforcement for alloy matrix composites.- Evaluation of crack propagation behavior of porous ceramic membranes.- Numerical and experimental assessment of water absorption of red mud-an industrial waste reinforced sisal/polyester hybrid polymer composite.- Modeling of damage evaluation and failure of laminated composite materials.