Optical microscopy of fiber-reinforced composites /
Brian S. Hayes and Luther M. Gammon.
- Materials Park, OH. : ASM International, 2010.
- viii, 271 p. : il. ; 26 cm.
1- Introduction-Composite materials and optical microscopy. 2- Sample preparation and mounting. 3- Rough grinding and polishing. 4- Special sample preparation and polishing. 5- Viewing the specimen using reflected-light microscopy. 6- Thin-section preparation and transmitted-light microscopy. 7- Composite structure analysis. 8- Void analysis of composite materials. 9- Microcrack analysis of composites materials. 10- Toughening methods for thermoset-matrix composites. 11- Impact response of composites. 12- Matrix microstructural analysis. 13- Honeycomb-cored sandwich structure composites. 14- Surface degradation of composites. 15- The effects of lightning strikes on polymeric composites.