Composite Basics

Airframe Topics Composites

Composite Basics - 6th edition
by Andrew Marshall
202 Pages $34.95

Highly recomended by most composite airframe manufaturers. This manual explains the theory, working techniques, and details of various types of glass, carbon and kevlar fibers, resins, adhesives, foams, and honeycombs.

Further sections include the basics of manufacturing and design methods and are extrememly relevent for those employed by component manufacturers and those involved in aircraft self design projects.
Tooling and manufacturing methods, designing, stress, loads and load
testing, vacuum bagging, autoclaves, and more are discussed in a technical, yet understandable manner.

This is more than a simple "how to" manual. Instead, it contains the information neccessary to give confidence to the builder or technician tasked in the design and construction of simple to complex parts for simple and complex aircraft.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1]    The Structural Fibers
2]    Fabrics
3]    Core Materials
4]    Honeycomb Cores
5]    Carving & Forming Core Materials
6]    The Resin Matrix
7]    Molding Methods & Tooling
8]    Wet Resin & Honeycomb Cores
9]    Designing Composite Structures
10]   Calculating Stresses and Loads
11]   Adhesives & Bonding
12]    Load Testing Your Structure

Appendix
A-1]    Sources of Materials & Information
A-2]    Glass Weave Styles Cross Reference
A-3]    List of Kevlar Weave Styles
A-4]    No More Rivets
A-5]    Properties Of Carbon Fibers & Fabrics
A-6]    Available Sandwich Panels From M.C. Gill's Inventory