TY - CHAP AU - Fabiano Bianchini Batista AU - Éder Lima de Albuquerque ED - John Cuppoletti Y1 - 2011-08-23 PY - 2011 T1 - Techniques for Identification of Bending and Extensional Elastic Stiffness Matrices on Thin Composite Material Plates Based on Virtual Field Method (VFM): Theoretical and Numerical Aspects N2 - This book contains chapters on nanocomposites for engineering hard materials for high performance aircraft, rocket and automobile use, using laser pulses to form metal coatings on glass and quartz, and also tungsten carbide-cobalt nanoparticles using high voltage discharges. A major section of this book is largely devoted to chapters outlining and applying analytic methods needed for studies of nanocomposites. As such, this book will serve as good resource for such analytic methods. BT - Nanocomposites with Unique Properties and Applications in Medicine and Industry SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/18414 DO - 10.5772/18414 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -