Composites engineering: an A–Z guide

Composites Engineering: An A-Z Guide provides a quick and accessible reference to composites terminologies. Arranged like a dictionary, each entry provides a brief but thorough description of over 90 typical and atypical composites terminologies. Comprehensive without being overly detailed, the book fills a gap for an accessible reference text of composites engineering terms and concepts. It is ideal for composites scientists and engineers at universities and in industry, as well as for undergraduates new to the field.

1. 'A' -- 1.1. Abrasion -- 1.2. Accelerated testing -- 1.3. Additives -- 1.4. Adhesion -- 1.5. Air bubble voids -- 1.6. Angle-ply laminate -- 1.7. Anisotropy -- 1.8. Areal weight -- 1.9. Aramid -- 1.10. Aspect ratio -- 1.11. Autoclave -- 1.12. Automated material placement (AMP)

2. 'B' -- 2.1. Bag moulding (vacuum bag moulding) -- 2.2. Balanced laminates -- 2.3. Band width -- 2.4. Batt -- 2.5. Biaxial Load -- 2.6. Burst strength

3. 'C' -- 3.1. C-scan -- 3.2. Carbon fibre -- 3.3. Cellular solids -- 3.4. Class (composite class) -- 3.5. Compression moulding -- 3.6. Consolidation -- 3.7. Contact moulding -- 3.8. Coupon -- 3.9. Crazing -- 3.10. Crimp -- 3.11. Cross ply laminates -- 3.12. Curing

4. 'D' -- 4.1. Damage models -- 4.2. Defects -- 4.3. Draping and hot drape forming -- 4.4. Dry fibre material (prepreg)

5. 'E' -- 5.1. Ejection (demoulding) -- 5.2. Exotherm -- 5.3. Extrusion

6. 'F' -- 6.1. Fatigue -- 6.2. Filler -- 6.3. Flitch -- 6.4. Fracture: interlaminar (FRP)

7. 'G' -- 7.1. Gel coat -- 7.2. Glass fibres -- 7.3. Glass transition

8. 'H' -- 8.1. Halpin-Tsai model -- 8.2. Hygroscopy -- 8.3. Hybrid composite

9. 'I' -- 9.1. Interlaminar shear -- 9.2. Interphase

10. 'J' --…