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Composites offer great promise as light and strong materials whose uses are no longer confined to high performance structures. Their major advantages, which are true for almost all composites, are increased stiffness with respect to homogeneous materials and in increased strength to crack extension. However, their application is still limited by the lack of complete knowledge about their strength under different load conditions and the prediction of the damage evolution and the way cracks develop in these materials is still an important topic of research. This book contains recent developments and results in composite materials science, including contributions from well-known researchers in this specialist field. Both polymeric and metal matrix composites are included and investigated with experimental, analytical and numerical analyses
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Fracture and Damage of Composites WITPRESS WIT Press publishes leading books in Science and Technology. Visit our website for the current list of titles. www.witpress.com WITeLibrary Home of the Transactions of the Wessex Institute, the WIT electronic-library provides the international scientific community with immediate and permanent access to individual papers presented at WIT conferences. Visit the WIT eLibrary at www.witpress.com. Advances In Fracture Mechanics Aims The science of fracture has grown considerably in power and diversity in recent years and for the engineering community the advances are matched by use in most traditional industries such as aerospace as well as new industries such as in manufacturing of micro-components. The aim of this series is to provide a platform for gathering state-of-the-art developments in the science of fracture. The series publishes several volumes every year, covering the latest developments in the application of fracture to different engineering fields. Each volume is either authored or edited comprising several chapters written by leading researchers in the field of fracture. The scope of the series covers the entire spectrum of computational and experimental techniques for fracture. Series Editor M.H. Aliabadi Dept of Aeronautics Imperial College, London Prince Consort Road South Kensington London SW7 2BY UK Editorial Board B. Abersek University of Maribor Slovenia J. Byrne University of Portsmouth UK A.G. Atkins University of Reading UK A. Carpinteri Politecnico di Torino Italy A.F. Blom Aeronautical Research Institute Sweden D.J. Cartwright Bucknell University USA C.A. Brebbia Wessex Institute of Technology UK H. Choi Kangnung National University Korea F.G. Buchholz Universitat Gesanthochschule Paderborn Germany R. De Borst Delft University of Technology The Netherlands J. Dominguez University of Seville Spain H. Nisitani Kyushu Sangyo University Japan W. Dover University College London UK P. O’Donoghue NUI Galway Ireland F. Erdogan Lehigh University USA J. Otegui Universidad Mar del Plata Argentina E.E. Gdoutos Democritus University of Thrace Greece L.P. Pook University College London UK D. Gross Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Germany I.S. Putra Institut Tekhnologi Bandung Indonesia D.A. Hills University of Oxford UK R.A. Schapery University of Texas USA T.H. Hyde University of Nottingham UK B. Scholtes University Gesamthochschule Kassel Germany D.R.H Jones University of Cambridge UK A.P.S. Selvadurai McGill University Canada A.S. Kobayashi University of Washington USA G.C. Sih Lehigh University USA Y-W. Mai University of Sydney Australia J. Sladek Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia S.I. Nishida Saga University Japan <