Materials and Process Modeling of Aerospace Composites

Since the successful production of carbon fibers in early 1960s, composite materials have emerged as the materials of choice for general aviation aircraft, military aircraft, space launch vehicles, and unmanned air vehicles. This has revolutionized the aerospace industry due to their excellent mechanical and physical properties, as well as weight-reducing ability.

The next- generation material development model should operate in an integrated computational environment, where new material development, manufacturability, and product design practice are seamlessly interconnected.

Materials and Process Modeling of Aerospace Composites reports recent developments on materials and processes of aerospace composites by using computational modeling, covering the following aspects:

• The historical uses of composites in aerospace industry, documenting in detail the early usage of composite materials on Premier I by Raytheon to recent full-scale applications of composites on large commercial aircraft by Boeing and Airbus.
• An overview on the classifications of composites used in aerospace industry, ranging from conventional glass- fiber reinforced composites to advanced graphene nanocomposites.
• The recent work on computational material engineering on aerospace composite materials, including fundamental computational frame work and case studies on the modeling of materials and processes.

Introduction

Chapter 1 : The Road to Large Scale Composite Application on Wide Body Commercial Transports
Chapter 2 : Advanced Materials for Aerospace and Space Applications
Chapter 3 : Virtual Allowable Computation to Speed-Up CFRP Material Development and Certification
Chapter 4 : Efficient Procedure for Robust Optimal Design of Aerospace Laminated Structures
Chapter 5 : Software to Enable Composite and Assembly Development Processes for Modern Airframes
Chapter 6 : Digital Manufacturing : The Digital Tapestry
Chapter 7 : Multi-Scale Modeling of an Injection Over-Molded Woven Fabric Composite Beam
Chapter 8 : Development of Low Cost Fuselage Frames by Resin Transfer Molding
Chapter 9 : Exploring the Manual Forming of Complex Geometry Composite Panels for Productivity and Quality Gains in Relation to Automated Forming Capabilities
Chapter 10 : Composites Design Optimization for Automated Fiber Placement Process

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