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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Vibration Studies
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Structural Analysis: Structural Systems
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About this book
The papers contained herein were presented at the Second International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/2) held at Paisley College of Technology, Paisley, Scotland, in September 1983. The Conference was organised and sponsored by Paisley College of Technology in association with the Scottish Development Agency and the National Engineering Laboratory. It forms a natural progression from the highly successful First International Conference on Composite Structures (lCCS/l) held at Paisley in September 1981. The last few decades have seen phenomenal advances in research and of composite materials with new and exciting structural development possibilities being unearthed on an almost daily basis. Composites have been rightly heralded as space-age materials of the future. However, along with the rather specialised aerospace applications a growing awareness of the wider potential of composites is also unmistakable. The extensive composite materials research programmes of the fifties and sixties are now yielding fruit in abundance, with composites being used in virtually every area of structural engineering from transportation to pressure vessels and so on. Although significant weight savings, paramount in transportation engineering, are possible, composites have gone far beyond being simply lighter than conventional materials. They offer real structural advantages with almost unbounded potential. The ability to tailor a particular matrix material to suit prevailing environmental conditions whilst maintaining adequate reinforcement to withstand applied loading is unquestionably an attractive proposition.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Composite Structures 2
Editors: I. H. Marshall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6640-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Applied Science Publishers Ltd 1983
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85334-229-8Due: 30 September 1983
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6642-0Published: 21 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6640-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 576