MEMS 1035 - COMPOSITE MATERIALS DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description Extensive uses of composites can be seen in several aspects of engineering applications. Industrial sectors, such as in wind turbines, oil and natural gas exploration and production, natural gas and hydrogen vehicle storage tanks, high-speed and precision machinery, etc., are today the largest user of composites, surpassing aerospace industries. Other applications are in semiconductor manufacturing equipment; automobile engines, bodies, brakes and clutches; energy storage flywheels; gas turbine engines; process industries equipment; data storage equipment; medical diagnostic equipment; prosthetics and orthotics, etc. The advantages of composite materials stem from their outstanding strengths and stiffnesses, low densities, in addition to their unique and tailorable physical properties, including good thermal conductivities compared to copper and thermal expansions that can be varied from high to near zero. Composites, such as metallic, ceramic and carbon materials have both high-temperature and low-temperature capabilities, making them useful in high temperature regimes, e.g. in gas turbine engines, automobile and aircraft brakes. This course offers an in-depth presentation of design, analysis and manufacturing methods for composites, with particular reference to polymer matrix composites. For an efficient use of composites in lightweight structural design applications, this course offers the needed fundamental understanding of the structure, properties, and mechanics of composite materials. A typical mechanical analysis and design of composite structures, which are significantly more complex than those of their metallic equivalents due to the anisotropic nature of laminated composite materials, will be presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MEMS 1028; LVL: Jr. OR Sr;; PLAN: Swanson School of Engineering

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