Introduction to Composite Design

Inevitably as an emerging technology develops it will be accompanied by its own jargon. In many cases the terminology will not be new, but only employed in a context that is unfamiliar. Composite materials are not exceptions to this rule and today's designers and engineers have had to become accustomed to a number of new concepts.

Isotropy

Anisotropy

Micromechanics and macromechanics

Volume and Weight Fraction

Lamina

Laminate