Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials

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Summary: Good for eduction
Review: I like this text book for my under graduate students it has a lot of materials informations.

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Summary: Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials
Review: The book Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials by Isaac M. Daniel and Ori Ishai is probably one of the best introduction books for composite analysis. I own several books in composites and so far this is the book I believe is most intuitive. I used this book as undergraduate and I continue to use it today. The book is easy to follow and for the most part provides with the formulation of most of the equations cover in the book. The only thing it lacks is a section in tensor analysis to help students understand stress and strain transformation via linear algebra. Over all I would recommend this test to anyone interested in learning the basics laminated composite analysis.

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Summary: A great book to start the study on composites
Review: This book is really friendly for a novice in composites. It contains a lot of theoretical and experimental data, solved problems and problems for the reader to solve and also lots of enlightening illustrations and figures. Chapters 7 and 8 nicely cover stress and failure analysis and characterization and testing subjects. Overall a very good book and up to date.