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Lightweight Composites

Mechanics, Processing, Properties, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - November 20, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mrityunjay Doddamani, Pradeep Menezes, Manoj Gupta
  • Language: English

Lightweight Composites: Mechanics, Processing, Properties, and Applications provides practical information for all types of lightweight composites, including cutting-edge proces… Read more

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Description

Lightweight Composites: Mechanics, Processing, Properties, and Applications provides practical information for all types of lightweight composites, including cutting-edge processing techniques and applications. It highlights the utilization of porosity in design and development of material systems in a unique and innovative way with strength and moduli property maps included throughout. The synthesis, mechanics, characterization, and testing of these materials are each covered at length, with particular attention paid to advanced manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing. Sandwich composites, lightweight nanocomposites, functionally-graded foams, syntactic foams, metal matrix composites, Al and Mg-based composites, and more are covered. Weight critical structural applications in aerospace, automobile, marine, electronics, sports, and biomedicine are also discussed,

Key features

  • Discusses the mechanics, synthesis, processing, properties, and applications of lightweight composites
  • Covers the recent cutting-edge advancements in design and development of metallic, polymeric, and ceramic-based lightweight composites
  • Highlights advanced manufacturing processes of lightweight composites, including 3D printing

Readership

Researchers, graduate and post graduate students, engineers, industry personnel materials scientists and industrial practitioners

Table of contents

Section 1: Introduction and Constituent Materials

1. Introduction to Lightweight composites

2. Conventional and Advanced Processing of Lightweight Composites and Multifunctional Materials

3. Mechanical and Performance Testing of Lightweight Composites

4. Modeling and Simulations Approach of Lightweight Composites

Section 2: Polymer based lightweight Composites

5. Acoustic behaviour of lightweight composites

6. Crashworthiness performance of lightweight Composites

7. Fatigue characterization of functionally graded foams

8. Thermo-mechanical properties of lightweight composites

9. Rubber based foams

10. Lightweight composite materials for electromagnetic interference shielding

11. Deformation modelling of Foams

12. Machinability studies of Syntactic foams

13. Experimental and theoretical Thermal conductivity of Syntactic foam composites

Section 3: Metal based lightweight Composites

14. Lightweight Magnesium based Nanocomposites

15. Mechanical Behaviors of Al and Mg Based Lightweight Composites

16. Tribological aspects of Al and Mg Composites

17. Corrosion aspects of Al and Mg based composites

18. Lightweight Foams for Biomedical Applications

Section 4: Ceramic based lightweight Composites

19. Processing of Ceramic foams

20. Fundamentals and Applications of Structured Ceramic Foam

21. Refractory Ceramic Foams for Novel Applications

22. Lightweight ceramic composites for structural applications

Section 5: Additive Manufacturing of Lightweight Composites

23. 3D Printing of Lightweight Core Sandwich Composites

24. 3D Printed Ceramic Foams

25. AM of Lightweight Metallic Composites

26. 3D Printing of Metamaterials

Section 6: Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends

27. Applications of Lightweight Composites in Aerospace

28. Applications of Lightweight Composites in Automotive

29. Applications of Lightweight Composites in Marine Sector

30. Challenges and Future Trends

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 25, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Mrityunjay Doddamani

Mrityunjay Doddamani is an Associate Professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Pradeep Menezes

Dr. Pradeep L. Menezes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, USA. Before joining this university, he worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), and as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Menezes’s productive research career has produced more than several peer-reviewed journal publications book chapters, books related to tribology and a patent. He teaches Introduction to Tribology, Advanced Tribology, Surface Engineering, Introduction to Manufacturing Processes, Mechanical Design, and Engineering Composites. He participated in many national and international conferences in roles such as conference paper reviewer, conference review committee member, conference technical committee member, session chairman, Paper Solicitation Chair and technical session organizer.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, USA

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Manoj Gupta

Manoj Gupta is an associate professor at the National University of Singapore's Mechanical Engineering Department. His research interests include the development of energy-efficient techniques such as microwave processing and disintegrated melt deposition processing, the development of light-weight materials with a focus on magnesium-based nanocomposites, syntactic composites, metastable composites, and the development of magnesium-based biomaterials such as composite materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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