Composite Structures 5

The papers contained herein were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/5) held at Paisley College of Technology, Scotland in July 1989. The conference was organised and sponsored by Paisley College of Technology. It was co-sponsored by the Scottish Development Agency, the National Engineering Laboratory, the US Air Force European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, the US Army Research, Development and Standardisation Group-UK, Strathclyde Regional Council and Renfrew District Council. It forms a natural and ongoing progression from the highly successful ICCS/1/2/3 and /4 held at Paisley in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1987 respectively. It has often been said that at the end of each decade there is much to be gained by reflecting on the manifold factors that have influenced the path of one's life. Doubtless there is much truth in that ancient adage. since it is only by subjectively considering the past that a glimmer of the future is possible.

Plenary Papers.- Fibre Composite Repairs to Damaged Structural Components.- Composite Intensive Automobiles—An Industry Scenario.- Shells and Pressure Vessels.- 1. FRP Reinforcement of Externally Pressurised Torispherical Shells.- 2. The Mechanical Behavior Peculiarities of Angle-Ply Reinforced Shells Made Out of Glass and Organic Fiber Reinforced Plastics.- Failure Studies.- 3. Failure Modes of Laminated Axisymmetric Shells of Revolution Subjected to External Pressure.- 4. Exact and Approximate Linear and Nonlinear Initial Failure Analysis of Laminated Mindlin Plates in Flexure.- 5. Multilayer Theory for Delamination Analysis of a Composite Curved Bar Subjected to End Forces and End Moments.- 6. A Study on Longitudinal Compressive Strength of FRP-Composites.- Environmental Effects.- 7. Moisture Management and Artificial Ageing of Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Resins.- 8. Environmental Effects on the Behaviour of Laminated Shells.- 9. Weight Change and Mechanical Properties of GRP Panel in Hot Water.- Plate Vibrations.- 10. Analysis of Nonlinear Forced Vibration of Anisotropic Composite Unsymmetrically Laminated Plates.- 11. Free-Vibration and Damping Characterization of Composites.- Shell Vibrations.- 12. Free Vibration Characteristics of Materially Monoclinic Circular Cylinders.- 13. Resonant Response of Orthotropic Cylindrical Shell Panels.- Damage Tolerance.- 14. Effect of Impactor Shape on Residual Tensile Strength and Tensile Failure of Carbon/Epoxy Laminates.- 15. Transverse Impact of Filament-Wound Pipes.- 16. Dynamic and Impact Behaviour of Composites Plates.- Transport Applications.- 17. Some Geometric and Component Interaction Effects during the Axial Collapse of Glass/Polyester Tubes at Force Levels Compatible with Rail Vehicle Design.- 18. A Design Study of a Composite Leaf Spring.- 19. Design Concept for One Piece Panel Vehicular Components in SMC Compression Moulding.- Finite Element Studies.- 20. A Simple Finite Element Formulation for Three-Dimensional Laminated Composite Plates.- 21. Transverse Stress Predictions for Thin-to-Thick Composite Structures: Shear Deformable Finite Element Penalty Formulation.- 22. Nonlinear Effects on Delamination Characterization of Composites Under Multi-axial Loads.- Structural Stability.- 23. On the Postbuckling Behavior of a Delaminated Thin Cylindrical Shell.- 24. Buckling and Vibration Analysis of Composite Prismatic Plate Structures.- 25. Torsional Buckling and Post-buckling of a CFC Geodetic Cylinder.- Platework Structures.- 26. High-Order Analysis of General Multi-layered Rectangular Plates Subjected to Transverse Loading.- 27. Stress Analysis of a Composite Plate Based on a New Plate Theory.- Aerospace Applications.- 28. Stress Concentration of the Composite Material Used by the X-29A Forward-Swept Wing Aircraft under Various Temperature Levels.- 29. Sensitivity Studies in the Outgassing of Spacecraft Composites.- 30. Vibrational Analysis of Large Antennae for Space Applications.- Mechanical Fasteners.- 31. The Study of the Behaviour of the Composite Multi-bolt Joint.- 32. Damage Detection and Damage Mechanisms Analyses in CFRP Laminate Bolted Joints.- 33. Effects of Biaxial Loading in Pin Jointed, CFRP Plates..- Pipework Analysis.- 34. Structural Performance of GRP Pipes with Mixed Wall Construction.- 35. Optimum Design of Circular Cylindrical Pipes Combined with GFRP/Steel.- 36. A CAD/CAM Program of Filament Winding on a Cylindrical Pipe.- Fatigue and Creep.- 37. Steady State Creep and Vibrocreep in Orthotropic Composite Materials.- 38. Influence of the Stacking Sequence and Load Direction on the Fatigue Behaviour of Quasi-isotropic Graphite/Peek Laminates.- Theoretical Studies.- 39. The Reliability of Composite Structures.- 40. Stress Concentration in a Finite Width Laminate Containing Several Elliptical Holes.- 41. Lamination Theory of Composite Material with Complex Fiber Orientation Distribution.- 42. Constitutive Modelling of Laminated Fibre-Reinforced Composites.- Cementitious Structures.- 43. Toughness Testing of Fibre Reinforced Concrete.- 44. Creep in SFRC Elements under Long-Term Excentric Compressive Loading.- 45. Behaviour of SFRC Slabs under Dynamic Loads.- 46. Existence of Interphase Cracks in Polymer Concrete.- Laminate Analysis.- 47. Micro-to-Macro Analysis of Viscoelastic Laminated Plates.- 48. Flexural Behaviour of Multi-directional Glass/Carbon Hybrid Laminates.- 49. Application of Continuum Damage Mechanics to Post Failure Analysis of Notched Cross Plied Laminates.- Matrix Considerations.- 50. Design and Manufacture of Radar Antennae with Composite Materials. Effects of Curing Temperature and Characterization of a Very Low Curing Temperature Resin System.- Complementary Studies.- 51. A Practical Methodology for Assessing the Validity of Strain Gauge Data Obtained from Advanced Composite Structures.- 52. Optimum Design for Knee Prosthesis Using Laminated Composite Materials—Stress Transmission Pattern and its Estimation.