FUNDAMENTALS OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR ADVANCED COMPOSITES : A Practical Guide to Layup, Molding, Curing, and Automated Fiber Placement
Language: English
Published by Laine Educational Media LLC Aug 2026, 2026
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- Title
- FUNDAMENTALS OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR ADVANCED COMPOSITES : A Practical Guide to Layup, Molding, Curing, and Automated Fiber Placement
- Author
- Evan Kastellan
- Publisher
- Laine Educational Media LLC Aug 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
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- 9798194817603
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- 1,139 grams
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- 279x216x25 mm
In a composite, the material and the structure are created in the same operation, at the same moment. Every decision taken during processing, every fiber angle, every degree of cure, every bar of consolidation pressure, is written permanently into the properties of the finished part.
That is why composites remain harder to reason about than the metals they replace. You cannot order the material to specification and then machine it to shape. And the knowledge needed to control the process sits in separate places: mechanics texts stop before the shop floor, process handbooks describe equipment without the governing physics, and supplier literature explains one product rather than a family of methods. Engineers are left able to analyse a laminate they could not confidently manufacture.
This practical guide closes that gap. It treats manufacturing as an integral part of design, and presents each process with the theory needed to understand it, the equations needed to quantify it, and worked examples that carry the calculation from first principles through to a final answer.
Inside this comprehensive guide you will:
- Trace how every processing decision reaches the finished part, from fiber volume fraction and void content to residual stress, spring-in and warpage.
- Compare each manufacturing route on equal terms, weighing property capability, production rate and unit cost, so process selection becomes a reasoned engineering choice.
- Design cure cycles from resin kinetics, estimate infusion fill times, set wind angles for pressure structures, size pull speed for continuous profiles, and calculate steering radii and realistic deposition rates for automated placement.
- Select and compensate tooling for thermal expansion mismatch, stiffness and heat-up behaviour.
- Diagnose defects by their pattern and read them back to the step that caused them, covering voids, dry spots, wrinkles, delamination, gaps and overlaps.
- Practise with worked examples, case studies and end-of-chapter problems supported by an answer key.
Eighteen chapters follow the natural logic of composite manufacturing. The opening chapters establish the constituents: reinforcing fibers, thermoset and thermoplastic matrices, micromechanics and the fiber-matrix interface, reinforcement architectures and preforms, and prepregs and cure chemistry. The core chapters cover the processes themselves, including hand and wet layup with vacuum bagging, autoclave curing, out-of-autoclave and vacuum-bag-only processing, resin transfer molding and vacuum infusion, filament winding, pultrusion, automated fiber placement and tape laying, thermoplastic and compression molding, and metal-matrix and ceramic-matrix routes. The closing chapters address tooling and mold design, cure management, defect control and in-process monitoring, and the machining, joining, inspection, quality assurance, repair and sustainability decisions that determine whether a part succeeds in service.
Reference back matter supports repeated use: a symbol list, glossary, unit conversions, representative material property tables, a grouped key equation reference, and guidance on standards. Material data is given as representative values to be verified against primary sources before production use.
It is written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, materials and manufacturing engineering, for practising design, process, tooling and quality engineers, and for experienced fabricators who want the physics behind the practice. It assumes a background in statics, mechanics of materials and basic chemistry, and builds each new concept from there.
Open the book at the process in front of you, follow the derivation through to the worked example, and start making composite manufacturing decisions you can defend with numbers.
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