Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology III

Section 1: Manufacturing and Processing.- Numerical Modeling of Sheet Forming Processes for Thermoplastic Composites.- Computer Simulation of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Fiber Suspensions.- On the Optimization of the Fiber Reinforced Composites Manufacturing Process with Two Pressure Steps.- Computer-Assisted Cure Cycle Design, Monitoring, Control and Post-Fabrication Damage Assessment in Thermoset Composites.- Design and Automated Fabrication of 3-D Braided Preforms for Advanced Structural Composites.- Mechanical Behaviour of Filament Wound Carbon Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Resin Tubes.- Void Formation and Growth in Thermoplastic Processing.- Simulation of Mold Filling in Resin Transfer Molding by Non-Conforming Finite Elements.- Resin Transfer Moulding for Automobile Manufacture: Reality and Simulation.- Computer-Aided Grid Strain Analysis in Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Sheet Forming.- Incremental Deformation Studies During Matched-Die-Forming of Continuous Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Polypropylene Laminates.- Numerical Simulation of Fibre Reorientation in a Squeezing Flow and other Flow Geometries using an Explicit Projection Method.- Contribution to the Study of the Delamination of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Laminated Composites during Piercing and Cutting by Hydro Jet Machining (HJM) and Hydro Abrasive Jet Machining (HAJM).- Section 2: Stress Analysis.- FE- Modeling of the Three-Dimensional Stress Field in a Plasticising Short Fibre Reinforced Composite.- Prediction of Process-Induced Stresses for In-Situ Thermoplastic Filament Winding of Cylinders.- Three Dimensional Composite Elements for Finite Element Analysis of Anistropic Laminated Structures.- Numerical and Experimental Stress Analyses of Bovine Femur for Determining the Mechanical Properties of Calcium-Phosphate Ceramic as an Artificial Bone Implant.- Section 3: Effects of Defects.- Microcrack-Interaction Induced Toughening in Ceramics and Advanced Composites.- The Torsional Fatigue Behaviour of the In-Plane Shear Modulus of Composite Materials.- Modelling of the Evolution of Interface Conditions in Adhesively Bonded Joints with Probabilistic Techniques.- Section 4: Computer Aided Design.- Analysis Idealization Control for Composite Materials with Nonlinear Behavior.- COMPO: A System for CAD of Composite Materials.- A Viscoelastic Analysis Computer Program (VCAP) for Computer Aided Design of Composites on a "PC".- The Role of Expert and Decision Support Systems in Composites Design and Manufacturing.- Prediction of Fiber Orientation and Mechanical Properties in Short-Fiber Reinforced Injection-Molded Composites.- Section 5: Numerical Techniques.- 3-D Simulation of Fiber-Fluid Interactions During Composite Manufacturing Using The Galerkin Boundary Element Method.- A First Modified Local Green's Function Method Approach to Orthotropic Laminated Plates.- Finite Element Analysis of Smart Structures.- Modelization of Coherent Interfaces by Mixed Finite Elements.- Section 6: Structural Applications and Optimization.- Computer Aided Design of FRP Sulcated Springs.- Optimum Design of Laminated Composite Material Structures.- Optimal Design of Prestressed Concrete Composite Slab by Geometric Programming.- Design and Calculation of Structures Composed of Plates and Pillars with Rigid Joints.- Structural Behaviour of Hybrid Composite Domes.- Analysis and Design of Composites Scarf Joints.- Integration of Processing Models with Control and Optimization of Polymer Composites Fabrication.- Section 7: Thermomechemical Properties.- Micromechanical Simulation ofThermo-Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Woven-Fabric Composites.- Solid Modeling of Fabric-Like Structures.- The Influence of Aspect Ratio Distributions on the Thermoelastic Properties of Short-Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials.- Identification of the Complex Moduli of Composite Materials.- A Finite Element Model for Moisture Ab-/Desorption in Polymeric Matrix Based on Composite Materials.- A Finite Element Approach for Thermal-Structural Response in Fibre Reinforced Composite Systems.- Computation of Micromechanical Models for the Transport Properties of Particulate Composite Media.- Thermoelastic Stress Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Composite Systems.- Author's Index.