Work-In-Progress Presented at the Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, 1974: The Role of Mechanics in Design-Structural Joints
Work-In-Progress Presented at the Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, 1974: The Role of Mechanics in Design-Structural Joints

Author: ARMY MATERIALS AND MECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER WATERTOWN MASS.

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Published: 1974

Total Pages: 26

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This document contains abstracts of presentations made at the Work-In-Progress Session of the Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, 1974. These sessions were comprised of a series of brief presentations and discussions of current (but not necessarily complete) research relating to the theme of the symposium: 'The Role of Mechanics in Design - Structural Joints.' This meeting was held at Bass River (Cape Cod), Massachusetts on 10-12 September 1974. The proceedings of this symposium are published in a companion document, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center Monograph Series Report, AMMRC MS 74-8 dated September 1974.

Fibrous Composites in Structural Design
Fibrous Composites in Structural Design

Author: Edward M. Lenoe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13: 1468410334

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The Fourth Conference on Fibrous Composites in Structural Design was a successor to the First-to-Third Conferences on Fibrous Composites in Flight Vehicle Design sponsored by the Air Force (First and Second Conferences, September 1973 and May 1974) and by NASA (Third Conference, November 1975) which were aimed at focusing national attention on flight vehicle applications of a new class of fiber reinforced materials, the advanced com posites, which afforded weight savings and other advantages which had not been previously available. The Fourth Conference, held at San Diego, California, 14-17 November 1978, was the fi rst of these conferences to be jointly sponsored by the Army, Navy and Ai r Force together with NASA, as well as being the first to give attention to non-aerospace applications of fiber reinforced composites. While the design technology for aerospace applications has reached a state of relative maturity, other areas of application such as mi litary bridging, flywheel energy storage systems, ship and surface vessel components and ground vehicle components are in an early stage of development, and it was an important objective to pinpoint where careful attention to structural design was needed in such applications to achfeve maximum structural performance payoff together with a high level of reliability and attractive economics.