Front Cover -- Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Elements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- 1.1 STRUCTURAL MATERIALS -- 1.2 COMPOSITE MATERIALS -- 1.3 References -- Chapter 2 - Fundamentals of mechanics of solids -- 2.1 STRESSES -- 2.2 EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS -- 2.3 STRESS TRANSFORMATION -- 2.4 PRINCIPAL STRESSES -- 2.5 DISPLACEMENTS AND STRAINS -- 2.6 TRANSFORMATION OF SMALL STRAINS -- 2.7 COMPATIBILITY EQUATIONS -- 2.8 ADMISSIBLE STATIC AND KINEMATIC FIELDS -- 2.9 CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR AN ELASTIC SOLID -- 2.10 FORMULATIONS OF THE PROBLEM -- 2.11 VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES -- 2.12. Reference -- Chapter 3 - Mechanics of a unidirectional ply -- 3.1 PLY ARCHITECTURE -- 3.2 FIBER-MATRIX INTERACTION -- 3.3 MICROMECHANICS OF A PLY -- 3.4 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A PLY UNDER TENSION, SHEAR, AND COMPRESSION -- 3.5 HYBRID COMPOSITES -- 3.6 COMPOSITES WITH HIGH FIBER FRACTION -- 3.7 PHENOMENOLOGICAL HOMOGENEOUS MODEL OF A PLY -- 3.8 References -- Chapter 4 - Mechanics of a composite layer -- 4.1 ISOTROPIC LAYER -- 4.2 UNIDIRECTIONAL ORTHOTROPIC LAYER -- 4.3 UNIDIRECTIONAL ANISOTROPIC LAYER -- 4.4 ORTHOGONALLY REINFORCED ORTHOTROPIC LAYER -- 4.5 ANGLE-PLY ORTHOTROPIC LAYER -- 4.6 LAYER MADE BY ANGLE-PLY CIRCUMFERENTIAL WINDING -- 4.7 FABRIC LAYERS -- 4.8 LATTICE LAYER -- 4.9 SPATIALLY REINFORCED LAYERS AND BULK MATERIALS -- 4.10 References -- Chapter 5 - Mechanics of laminates -- 5.1 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A NONHOMOGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC LAYER -- 5.2 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A HOMOGENEOUS LAYER -- 5.3 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF A LAMINATE -- 5.4 SYMMETRIC LAMINATES -- 5.5 ENGINEERING STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS OF ORTHOTROPIC LAMINATES -- 5.6 QUASI-HOMOGENEOUS LAMINATES -- 5.7 QUASI-ISOTROPIC LAMINATES IN THE PLANE STRESS STATE -- 5.8 ANTISYMMETRIC LAMINATES -- 5.9 SANDWICH STRUCTURES.

5.10 COORDINATE OF THE REFERENCE PLANE -- 5.11 STRESSES IN LAMINATES -- 5.12 References -- Chapter 6 - Failure criteria and strength of laminates -- 6.1 FAILURE CRITERIA FOR AN ELEMENTARY COMPOSITE LAYER OR PLY -- 6.2 PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS -- 6.3 EXAMPLES -- 6.4 ALLOWABLE STRESSES FOR LAMINATES CONSISTING OF UNIDIRECTIONAL PLIES -- 6.5 PROGRESSIVE FAILURE: MODELING AND ANALYSIS -- 6.6 References -- Chapter 7 - Environmental, special loading, and manufacturing effects -- 7.1 TEMPERATURE EFFECTS -- 7.2 HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS AND AGING -- 7.3 TIME-DEPENDENT LOADING EFFECTS -- 7.4 MANUFACTURING EFFECTS -- 7.5 References -- Chapter 8 - Laminated composite beams and columns -- 8.1 BASIC EQUATIONS -- 8.2 STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS -- 8.3 BENDING OF LAMINATED BEAMS -- 8.4 NONLINEAR BENDING -- 8.5 BUCKLING OF COMPOSITE COLUMNS -- 8.6 FREE VIBRATIONS OF COMPOSITE BEAMS -- 8.7 REFINED THEORIES OF BEAMS AND PLATES -- 8.8 References -- Chapter 9 - Laminated composite plates -- 9.1 EQUATIONS OF THE THEORY OF ANISOTROPIC LAMINATED PLATES -- 9.2 EQUATIONS FOR THE ORTHOTROPIC PLATES WITH SYMMETRIC STRUCTURE -- 9.3 ANALYSIS OF THE EQUATIONS OF PLATE THEORY FOR TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC PLATES -- 9.4 BENDING OF ORTHOTROPIC SYMMETRIC PLATES -- 9.5 BUCKLING OF ORTHOTROPIC SYMMETRIC PLATES -- 9.6 POSTBUCKLING BEHAVIOR OF ORTHOTROPIC SYMMETRIC PLATES UNDER AXIAL COMPRESSION -- 9.7 GENERALLY LAMINATED PLATES -- 9.8 References -- Chapter 10 - Thin-walled composite beams -- 10.1 GEOMETRY OF THE BEAM CROSS SECTION -- 10.2 THE EQUATIONS OF MEMBRANE SHELL THEORY -- 10.3 ASSUMPTIONS OF COMPOSITE BEAM THEORY -- 10.4 FREE BENDING AND TORSION OF THIN-WALLED BEAMS WITH A CLOSED CROSS-SECTIONAL CONTOUR -- 10.5 BEAMS WITH MULTI-CELL CROSS-SECTIONAL CONTOURS -- 10.6 BEAMS WITH OPEN CROSS-SECTIONAL CONTOURS -- 10.7 References -- Chapter 11 - Circular cylindrical shells.

11.1 GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND APPLIED SHELL THEORIES -- 11.2 CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WHOSE STRESS-STRAIN STATE DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE AXIAL COORDINATE -- 11.3 AXISYMMETRIC DEFORMATION OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS -- 11.4 GENERAL LOADING CASE -- 11.5 BUCKLING OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS UNDER AXIAL COMPRESSION -- 11.6 BUCKLING OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS UNDER EXTERNAL PRESSURE -- 11.7 References -- Chapter 12 - Optimal composite structures -- 12.1 OPTIMAL FIBROUS STRUCTURES -- 12.2 COMPOSITE LAMINATES OF UNIFORM STRENGTH -- 12.3 OPTIMAL DESIGN OF LAMINATES -- 12.4 APPLICATION TO OPTIMAL COMPOSITE STRUCTURES -- 12.5 References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.