Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures: Simplified Approaches (Aerospace Series)

Comprehensively covers new and existing methods for the design and analysis of composites structures with damage present

• Provides efficient and accurate approaches for analysing structures with holes and impact damage
• Introduces a new methodology for fatigue analysis of composites
• Provides design guidelines, and step by step descriptions of how to apply the methods, along with evaluation of their accuracy and applicability
• Includes problems and exercises
• Accompanied by a website hosting lecture slides and solutions