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Reddy (mechanical engineering, Texas A&M University) incorporates advances in the field over the past seven years in this second edition of a text and reference on the theories, analytical solutions, and modeling of laminated composite plate and shell structures. There is a new chapter on the theory and analysis of laminated shells, and there are new discussions of smart structures and functionally graded materials. Additional exercises and examples are also included. Early chapters review mathematical preliminaries, virtual work principles, and variational methods, and later chapters cover various types of analysis for different kinds of laminated composite materials. The book can be used as a reference for engineers, and as a text for a graduate course on theory and analysis of composite laminates. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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