Advanced Composites '93 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials (ICACM), Held at the University of Wollongong, Australia, 15-19 February, 1993

This collection of papers from Materials Week '92, held in Chicago, USA in 1992 documents the state-of-the-art for advanced composites as it exists today. The 210 papers provide an extensive, yet comprehensive report of metal matrix, ceramic matrix and polymer composite technology.;The papers are organized in sequence starting with applications, followed by design and analyses, and finally, materials systems including fibers and resins, thermoplastic composites, metallic composites and ceramic composites.;Coverage includes: marine applications for advanced composite materials; developments of high-density ceramic composites for ballistic applications; a comparison of analytical and experimental results for composite material I-beams; modeling of composite materials and multilayered structures; manufacture and characterization of aluminium matrix composites using powder metallurgy route; thermal stability of Mg-alumina.