Advanced Aerospace Materials

Aerospace Technology is a very challenging topic. The book covers the transition from aluminum to composite materials for aerospace structures and includes advanced analyses used in industries. It is for engineers and students of aerospace, materials and mechanical engineering. New in the 3rd Edition is material on buckling and vibration of arches, trusses and frames, application of Rayleigh approach, Southwell’s plot, new advanced excitation devices and nonlinear behavior of plates under lateral pressure including thin long isotropic rectangular plates.

• Discusses aluminum and composite materials for use in aerospace structures.
• 3^rd edition contains updated chapters and 4 new chapters
• Easily accessible to both students and engineers.

Prof. Haim Abramovich obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, in 1975, 1979 and 1983, respectively.

He has been with the Technion since 1987 until 2020, and currently he is a retired professor from the Aerospace Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, I.I.T., Haifa, ISrael

He spent three years with the Israeli industry and between 1996-1998 he was Guest Professor at ETH Zurich Institut fur Leichtbau und Seilbahntechnik, Switzerland, while from March-September 2018, he was at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands.

His main fields of interest are: static and dynamic stability of thin walled structures, piezoelectric materials, laminated composite structures, dynamic buckling of thin walled structures, smart structures technologies using piezoelectric and shape memory alloys (SMA) materials, structural mechanics and energy harvesting using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials .

He has published more than 115 papers in well-known international journals on above quoted subjects. He is the author of 10 patents on piezoelectric harvesting devices. He is also the author of several books.