The History of Composites

People, Science, Technology and Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-34119-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 900 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

The History of Composites: People, Science, Technology and Society introduces the reader to key milestones in the discovery and technological development of composite materials, including their processes and applications. Sections give a “bird’s eye view” that surveys the basic concept of composites from ancient times right through to the crucial inventions of glass fibers and manmade plastics in the 1930’s. Further content explores the revolution of carbon fibers and their nano-descendants graphene and carbon nanotubes while also analyzing the dynamics of innovations to further illustrate how fundamental discoveries have led to the creation of new products or improved existing ones.

By presenting these fundamental discoveries, the authors hope to inspire both researchers and engineers in their quest to develop further innovations in composite materials in the future, including both their processes and applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verpoest, Ignaas

Lomov, Stepan V

Mehdikhani, Mahoor

Swolfs, Yentl

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: An Introduction to the Book

1.1 General history of composites, a “bird’s eye view”
Ignaas Verpoest
1.2 Challenges and opportunities for composites in the next decades
Ignaas Verpoest, Stepan Lomov, Yentl Swolfs, Mahoor Mehdikhani and Panayiotis Tsokanas

Part II: specific aspects of the history of composites - introduction
Ignaas Verpoest

Section 1: Materials - introduction

1.1 History of glass fibres
Chris Skinner and Michelle Korwin-Edson
1.2 History of carbon fibres
Fumihiko Tanaka
1.3 A brief history of high-performance polymer fibres
Ton Peijs and Pieter Jan Lemstra
1.4 Closing the Cycle: The Evolution of Natural Fibre Composites through History
Jörg Müssig and Alain Bourmaud
1.5 Nano and Nanoengineered Composites Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes
Brian Wardle and Jae-Moon Jeong
1.6 Graphene composites
Robert Joseph Young and Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou
1.7 Fibre-Hybrid Composites: a History of Discrepancies between Industry and Academia
Yentl Swolfs and Thanasis Chatziathanasiou
1.8 The History of Advanced Composites in the United States - A Personal Story
R. Byron Pipes
1.9 The history of discontinuous fibre composites
Paula Hohoff and Tim Osswald

Section 2: Processes - introduction

2.1 The development of composite-unique processes since 1930 till now
Kevin Potter
2.2 The story of pultrusion
Eric Moussiaux
2.3 Textile technologies contribution to composites
Stepan Lomov
2.4 The era of automation and robotisation of composites manufacturing
Klaus Drl Drechsler
2.5 The Emergence of High Performance Thermoplastic Composites
David Leach
2.6 Historical impact of process modeling in composites manufacturing
Christophe Binetruy and Suresh Advani

Section 3: Applications - introduction

3.1 The triumphant advance of carbon composites to airframe structures in Europe
Axel Herrmann and Marc Fette
3.2 Composite Applications and Technology at Boeing
Tia Benson Tolle, Gwen Gross, Patrick Enjuto, Holly Thomas, John Keune and John Griffith
3.3 No wind energy without composites: The early years as seen from Denmark
Hans Lilholt and Bo Madsen
3.4 Citius, altius, fortius: the crucial role of composites in sports
Helena Teixido, Veronique Michaud and ignaas verpoest
3.5 Lightweighting for Automotives with Composite Technologies and It’s Limitations in the Mass Production Vehicles
Nobuya Kawamura
3.6 Composites in Structural Engineering and Architecture
Thomas Keller, João Ramôa Correia, Brahim Benmokrane, Joaquim Barros and Seyed Arman Hosseini

Section 4: The theory behind composites, and how it evolved - introduction

4.1 On the evolution of the laminated plate theory for composite materials: from trace via quad to double-double.
Steve Tsai
4.2 No composites without computers: the key role of software tools
Anthony Pickett
4.3 From micro/meso-mechanics to FEM analysis of complete airplanes
Pedro P. Camanho and Albertino Arteiro
4.4 Damage mechanics in composites
Ramesh Talreja
4.5 Evolution of experimental methods for characterisation of mechanical properties of composites
Jan Ivens and Mahoor Mehdikhani
4.6 The history of nondestructive testing (NDT) for fibre reinforced polymer composites
Martine Wevers
4.7 History of composites organisations
Marino Quaresimin

Über Autor(innen)

Mehdikhani, Mahoor
Dr. Mahoor Mehdikhani earned a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2012), followed by an MSc (2014) and PhD (2018) in Materials Engineering from KU Leuven. His PhD focused on the effect of voids in fibre-reinforced composites. He is currently a senior FWO postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, specialising in in situ multiscale damage monitoring, (XCT) image processing in composites, and computational micromechanics. In 2023, he completed a four-month funded research stay at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. He supervises multiple PhD, master, and bachelor students and has secured research funding from FWO, KU Leuven, and the China Scholarship Council. In July 2024, he was elected to the Council of the European Society for Composite Materials (ESCM), and in November 2024, he was named runner-up for the Composites Science and Technology Young Researcher Award.

Lomov, Stepan V
Prof. Stepan V. Lomov graduated with an M.S. in Physics-Mechanics from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1978) and then went on to complete his PhD in1985. He was awarded his Dr. Hab. on textile materials science in 1995, from St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. Since 1999, Professor Lomov has been working at KU Leuven, Belgium, in the Department of Materials Engineering. He was coordinator of the Composite Materials Group from 2013 to 2020. He was holder of the Toray Chair in Composite Materials at KU Leuven between 2013 to 2022 and has been an Emeritus Professor since 2020. His research areas include composites and textiles science and engineering: internal structure, manufacturing, in-service mechanical behaviour, nanocomposites, experimental damage mechanics, micro- and meso-level geometrical and mechanical models.