Lecture Notes on Composite Materials

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Contributing Authors
Holm Altenbach is a Full Professor of Engineering Mechanics and the
Director of the Center of Engineering Sciences at theMartin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). His research interests are focussed on the following
topics: Structural Mechanics (beams, plates and shells), Lightweight
Structures (laminates and sandwiches), Continuum Mechanics (basics and constitutive
modelling) and Creep-damage Analysis. Since 2005 he has become
one of the Editors-in-Chief of the Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und
Mechanik.
René de Borst is a Distinguished Professor at Eindhoven University of
Technology and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His current research interests are in the development of novel numerical
methods for the analysis of multiscale phenomena, multiphysics problems, and
evolving discontinuities.
Eduard Marius Craciun is a Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics
and Informatics at the “Ovidius” University of Constanta (Romania). Main
research field represents the analytical and numerical methods in the study of
crack propagation (incremental values of stresses producing crack propagation
and crack propagation direction) in prestressed elastic composites and in prestressed
and prepolarized piezoelectric materials.
Ryszard Pyrz is Professor and Chair in Materials Science and Engineering
and a head of the Center for New Era of Materials Technology (NEMT)
at the University of Aalborg (Denmark). His scientific interest and research
activities comprise following areas: molecular modelling of nanomaterials and
nanostructures, development of a direct connection between processing and
microstructure of advanced materials, multiscale modelling methodologies,
experimental in situ investigation of materials’ microstructure with utilization
of modern techniques such as Raman nano/microspectroscopy and scanning
probe microscopy.
Tomasz Sadowski is the Head of the Department of Solid Mechanics at the
Lublin University of Technology (Poland). Prof. Sadowski’s research interests
comprise the following areas: continuum damage mechanics of materials and
structures, modelling of ceramic polycrystalline materials, modelling of composites
with ceramic and polymer matrix, fracture mechanics of materials under
mechanical loading and thermal shock.