Comprehensive Composite Materials II

Volume 1: Reinforcements and General Theories of Composites Edited by Emmanuel E. Gdoutos, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Volume 2: Polymer Matrix Composites: Fundamentals Edited by Ramesh Talreja, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA Volume 3: Polymer Matrix Composites: Manufacture and Applications Edited by Anoush Poursartip, Department of Materials Engineering, the University of British Columbia, Canada Volume 4: Metal Matrix Composites Edited by T W Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK Volume 5: Ceramic and Carbon Matrix Composites Edited by Marina B. Ruggles-Wrenn, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA Volume 6: Nanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials Edited by Ton Peijs, The School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, and Erik T Thostenson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, USA Volume 7: Testing, Nondestructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring Edited by Robert Crane, Emeritus, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA Volume 8: Design and Analysis of Composite Structures Edited by Alastair Johnson, Composites Consultant, Stuttgart, Germany, and Constantinos Soutis, Aerospace Research Institute, University of Manchester, UK

Carl H. Zweben is an Industry Consultant (Zweben Consulting, USA) with over 40 years' experience in advanced thermal materials and composite structural, optical and mechanical systems. He is former Division Fellow and Advanced Technology Manager, and directed the GE Aerospace Group Composites Center of Excellence (now retired). Zweben has also held positions at Du Pont and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a Life Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) and American Society for Metals (ASM) and an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was first to win GE Engineer-of-the-Year and One-in-a-Thousand Awards, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Composite Materials, 1st Ed., with Anthony Kelly. Dr Peter Beaumont is Reader in Engineering Materials at the Engineering Department in the University of Cambridge. Over several decades, Dr Beaumont has researched the relation between structure and properties of engineering materials especially composite materials, polymers and ceramic systems. His research has led to a new formulation of the principles of damage mechanics of composite materials for which he received the Distinguished Research Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has published extensively on the structure and properties of composite materials, polymers and ceramics, and he is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of international journal Applied Composite Materials.