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Course description

The course provides an introduction to composite materials, manufacturing and design with a primary focus on applications in the aerospace industry. Students will gain insight into the commonly used constituent materials, intermediates, and resulting composites and understand the many choices available in this hierarchy. The course will then introduce the students to the most common composite manufacturing processes for both thermoplastic and thermosetting matrix composites. Emphasis is put on enabling students to select the most appropriate manufacturing process for a given application and material combination. The design component of the course covers the key concepts of structural design and evaluation of composite materials. This includes introducing students to micromechanics, classical-laminate theory, and failure theory of composite materials using both analytical as well as numerical methods. In the final two weeks of the semester, the course ventures into advanced topics, including sandwich structures, degradation and durability, and ceramic matrix composite materials and manufacturing. The learning experience is enhanced with two hands-on manufacturing practicals and a non-destructive testing workshop.

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