Introduction to Composite Materials (2 hours)
Definition of Composites, Applications of Composites, Classification of Composites, Advantages of Composites, Limitations of Composites.

Constituents of Composite Materials (12 hours)
Reinforcements, Flexibility, Fiber Spinning Processes, Stretching and Orientation, Properties of Fibers, Glass Fiber, Carbon Fiber, Aramid fiber, Boron Fiber, Natural Fibers, Ceramic Fibers, Other forms of reinforcements, Selection of fiber, Matrix materials, Polymer Matrix, Metal Matrix, Ceramic Matrix, Fiber content, density and void content.

Composite Interfaces (4 hours)
Wettability, Surface Roughness, Crystallographic Nature of Interface, Types of Bonding at the Interface, Mechanical Bonding, Physical Bonding, Chemical Bonding, Interfacial Bond Strength, Very weak interfacial strength, Very strong interfacial strength, Optimum interfacial strength, Tests for measuring interfacial strength, Flexural Test, Fiber pullout test, Instrumented Indentation test, Fiber fragmentation test.

Processing of composites (4 hours)
Polymer Matrix Composites, Thermosetting polymer based: Hand layup Technique, Spray up Technique, Pultrusion Technique, Filament Winding Technique, Resin Transfer Molding, Thermoplastic polymer based: Film Stacking, Injection moulding, Commingled Fibers. Metal Matrix Composites, Liquid state processing: Liquid state processing: Stir Casting, Liquid state processing: Infiltration (Gas pressure infiltration, Squeeze casting, Pressure die infiltration), Solid state processing: Diffusion Bonding, Deposition Techniques, Sintering. Ceramic Matrix Composites, Polymer Infiltration and Pyrolysis (PIP), Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI), Liquid Silicon Infiltration (LSI), Carbon-Carbon Composites.

Mechanics of Composite Materials (12 hours)
Unidirectional lamina, Longitudinal tensile testing: Continuous Fiber reinforcement, Discontinuous fiber reinforcement, Transverse Tensile loading, Major Poisson’s Ratio, Fracture toughness of Fiber reinforced composites, Failure modes

To make students aware of the National and International status and current-day applications of Composite Materials in various Engineering applications.

To train students to be able to select proper reinforcement and matrix materials along with fabrication techniques to design composite structures for different requirements

To make students updated on the cutting edge research activities in Composite materials globally

To upskill the students for analyzing the strength criteria and predicting the properties and performance of the composite structures under different types of mechanical loads along different directions

Recognizing different types of composite materials, reinforcements and matrices and the spectrum of their Engineering applications and limitations.

Understanding the basic characteristics of various types of the reinforcements and matrices and realize the scientific origin of interfaces in composite materials and their importance on the overall performance of the composite Materials.

Analyzing the effects of structure and types of constituents and their arrangement on the interfacial interaction and physical and mechanical behavior of the resulting composite materials.

Systematic understanding of basic concepts and their implementation for designing various manufacturing techniques for composite materials for different engineering products.

Applying the basic concepts of Mechanics of materials for predicting the mechanical response of the composite materials, focusing mainly the fiber reinforced composite system under different states of loading.

Predicting the deformation and failure behaviour in composites and accordingly demonstrate an ability to select raw materials, choose the proper stacking sequence, adopt the appropriate fabrication technique to develop Composite materials for targeted engineering applications.

P.K. Mallick, Fiber reinforced Composites, CRC Press

K.K. Chawla, Composite Materials, Springer

A.K. Kaw, Mechanics of Composite Materials, CRC Press

D. Hull, T.W. Clyne, An introduction to Composite Materials, Cambridge University Press

Y Wang, S K R Pillai, J Che, M B. Chan-Park, High Interlaminar Shear Strength Enhancement of Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite through Fiber- and Matrix-Anchored Carbon Nanotube Networks, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 10, 8960–8966.