Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite Materials

Dr T. D.Papathanasiou obtained his engineering diploma from the National technical University of Athens and his PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. Between 1992 and 1997 he was Unilever Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, London and he is currently Associate professor at the University of South Carolina, USA. Dr D. C. Geull received his BS in chemical engineering from Iowa State University and his MS and PhD in chemical engineering from MIT. He was then awarded a Director's Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National laboratory and later accepted a position as a technical staff member there.

• Flow-induced alignment in composite materials: Current applications and future prospects; Fiber-fiber and fiber-wall interactions during the flow of non-dilute suspensions; Macroscopic modelling of the evolution of fiber orientation during flow; Flow-induced alignment in injection moulding of fiber-reinforced polymer composites; Control and manipulation of fiber orientation in large-scale processing; Theory and simulation of shear flow-induced microstructure in liquid crystalline polymers; Mesostructural characterisation of aligned fiber composites; Materials property modelling and design of short fiber composites; Micromechanical modelling in aligned-fiber composites: Prediction of stiffness and permeability using the boundary method.

"...Strongly recommended." --Applied Mechanics Reviews"A unique and well-prepared reference book for researchers who work in the field of modelling and processing of discontinuous fiber-reinforced composite." --Applied Mechanics Reviews