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Feb 05, 2025
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ME 429 - Composite Materials3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course introduces the student to the mechanical behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials. Topics to be covered include anisotropic stress-strain relationships, failure theories, and stress analysis of plates and shells. Different manufacturing methods and applications will be presented. (prereq: ME 2004 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Be familiar with indicial notation
- Transform tensor quantities from one coordinate system to another
- Compute stresses and strains for a composite lamina subjected to in-plane, bending, and thermal loads
- Apply different failure criteria to predict laminate failures
- Be familiar with the most commonly-used manufacturing processes of composite structures
- Be familiar with aerospace, automotive, recreational, and industrial applications of composite materials
- Be familiar with several standard test methods of composites
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Introduction to composite materials
- Indicial notation, matrices, and tensors
- Mechanics of a composite lamina
- Extensional behavior of a symmetric laminate
- Failure criteria
- Composite schedules
- Macro mechanical models
- Micro mechanical models
- Mechanical behavior of a general lamina
- Manufacturing processes
- Test methods
- Testing lab demonstration
Coordinator
Dr. Robert Rizza
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