Materials and Process Modeling of Aerospace Composites

Materials and Process Modeling of Aerospace Composites brings together 10 SAE International technical papers reporting recent developments on materials and processes of aerospace composites by using computational modeling. The book narrates the historical usage of composites in aerospace industry, documenting in detail the early employment of composite materials on Premier I by Raytheon to recent full-scale applications of composites on large commercial aircraft by Boeing and Airbus. It also provides an overview on the classification of composites used in aerospace industry, ranging from conventional glass fiber reinforced composites to advanced graphene nanocomposites. Materials and Process Modeling of Aerospace Composites also presents recent work on computational material engineering on aerospace composite materials, including fundamental computational framework and case studies on the modeling of materials and processes. So far, the material developments in today's aerospace industry have been highly complex, expensive, and slow paced. The next-generation material development model should operate in an integrated computational environment, where development, manufacturability, and product design practice are seamlessly interconnected.