ABSTRACT
While this proceedings volume deals primarily with the conventional areas of metal, ceramic, and polymer composites for civil construction, several of the papers report on new developments in the emerging fields of wood and nanocomposites. The 63 papers from the September 2002 workshop includes the further integration of the fabrication and function processes, aspects of the scale of components which improve the competitive position of composites relative to conventional materials and the exploitation of new types of composite such as nanocomposites which exploit a variety of new length scales to achieve their functionality. This also gives rise to multifunctional composites which have attributes other than structural properties. In this talk these aspects of the future of composites will be explored and illustrated.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |39 pages
Review Papers
part |44 pages
Manufacturing Methods
part |168 pages
Materials Characterization
part |111 pages
Simulation and Modelling
part |20 pages
Code Development
part |75 pages
Fatigue, Fracture, Impact
part |28 pages
Sensors and Control
part |27 pages
Nanocomposites, Natural Fiber Composites
part |18 pages
Applications