Dear Madhu,

Composites are used in many industries today to enable high-performance products at economic advantage. These industries range from space to sports and include manufactured products for aircraft, transportation, energy, construction, sports, marine, and medical use. There are many material, economic and aesthetic advantages to using composites, but a solid knowledge of the physical properties, including the mechanics, tooling, design, inspection & repair, and manufacturing options is required for working in this medium as they are intrinsically linked.

If I talk about the composite course in engineerings or in science as a elective subjects- this course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of composite materials for high performance structures from the point of view of Aerospace engineering design, manufacturing, and repair. Course can be designed in studies to address critical areas of composite technologies that focus on materials, manufacturing, mechanics, design, inspection, and repair. Students will learn how composite materials achieve properties of strength, weight ratios and durability that surpass aluminum in aircraft design, optimization of design in composites, structural composites studies etc.   For these high performance applications engineers typically rely on laminated structures, which are built up from many varying layers of ply-materials. Using this process the mechanical properties of the composite part can be tailored to specific applications resulting in significant weight and cost savings. Tailoring specific properties and designing innovative laminate structures highlights the multidisciplinary nature of this industry and how it touches the expertise of many disciplines including engineers, mechanics, and inspection specialists. Course knowledge could be useful in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, chemistry, physics, biomedical, bioscience etc. Its a multidisciplinary nature of subjects contents available to the students involve in class study or in research.

Hope it is helpful for you.

Ashish

The composite materials can be used as the open elective for branches like Mechanical engineering sciences, Aeronautical Engineering and Civil engineering. I think it's not suitable for Electrical,Electronics and computer Science branches.

Yes, as it is an interdisciplinary subject, it is suitable for an open elective.

Reference Books for UG students:

Mazumdar, S., 2001. Composites manufacturing: materials, product, and process engineering. CrC press.

Strong, A.B., 2008. Fundamentals of composites manufacturing: materials, methods and applications. Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Gibson, R.F., 2016. Principles of composite material mechanics. CRC press.

Dear Madhu,

Composites are used in many industries today to enable high-performance products at economic advantage. These industries range from space to sports and include manufactured products for aircraft, transportation, energy, construction, sports, marine, and medical use. There are many material, economic and aesthetic advantages to using composites, but a solid knowledge of the physical properties, including the mechanics, tooling, design, inspection & repair, and manufacturing options is required for working in this medium as they are intrinsically linked.

If I talk about the composite course in engineerings or in science as a elective subjects- this course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of composite materials for high performance structures from the point of view of Aerospace engineering design, manufacturing, and repair. Course can be designed in studies to address critical areas of composite technologies that focus on materials, manufacturing, mechanics, design, inspection, and repair. Students will learn how composite materials achieve properties of strength, weight ratios and durability that surpass aluminum in aircraft design, optimization of design in composites, structural composites studies etc.   For these high performance applications engineers typically rely on laminated structures, which are built up from many varying layers of ply-materials. Using this process the mechanical properties of the composite part can be tailored to specific applications resulting in significant weight and cost savings. Tailoring specific properties and designing innovative laminate structures highlights the multidisciplinary nature of this industry and how it touches the expertise of many disciplines including engineers, mechanics, and inspection specialists. Course knowledge could be useful in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, chemistry, physics, biomedical, bioscience etc. Its a multidisciplinary nature of subjects contents available to the students involve in class study or in research.

Hope it is helpful for you.

Ashish

Absolutely. This is one of the most essential subject these days. I would recommend this text book: Mechanics of Composite Materials by Robert M. Jones

Yes of course, it is one of the most demanding subjects, and very useful for the current industry needs.

you can follow, Mechanics of Composite Materials by Madhujeet Mukhopadhyay

Yes, The course may offer as Elective course. Best book for composite material is "Composite Materials by Krishan K. Chawla." Springer.

Yes.

M M Schwartz

AUTAR KAW

K CHAWLA

CHUNG

HULL

Yes, with practical of how to prepare composite materials.

M M Schwartz

Krishan K. Chawla." Springer.

Autar Kaw

Composite materials subject as an elective is already available in mechanical engg course. It consists of its definition, types, applications, preparation in large quantity and little about its mechanics and testing. Students will be in a loop of with types of composites like PMC, MMC, CMC etc, and will not go more than that.

Again students failed to understand its applications in industries as they were unable reach about a type of composite and its mechanics.

As per my concerned, I recommend that students must study the advance composites, its preparation, testing, mechanics and applications in detail.

Instead of text books, if a student download and understand the review paper published in a journal about the advance composites that will be much more effective way to study the composite material.

Yes, it can be floated as open elective course in order to give an idea about the fundamentals of composites to the UG students. There are numerous standard books that are followed for the specific composite fields. You have to be more selective in order to give insight to a particular field of this multidisciplinary course. I can recommend a good book on Fibre Reinforced Composites Materials, Manufacturing, and Design by Mallick, PK ,CRC Press

Surely, composites can be elective subject for UG as well as PG students. Now a days, composites are prominent field for research and interesting area. So it can be floated in graduation to give an basic idea to the students. their are numerous books on composite field that can be followed. I can recommended:

Analysis and performances of fibre composites by Aggarwwal BD, Broutman L.J.; John Wiley

Fibre Reinforced Composites Materials, Manufacturing, and Design by Mallick, PK ,CRC Press

Mechanics of Composite materials by Jones R. M.; MC Graw Mill

It is already opted as an elective in VTU, but can be made as an open elective so that other branch students can opt for it.

The various books that can be referred are:

Composite Materials handbook - M M Schwartz, McGraw Hill publications

Composite Materials - Chawlaq K K, Springer Verlag

Mechanics of Composite Materials - Autar K Kaw

Composite Materials - Robert M Jones