New edition updated with additional exercises and two new chapters.

Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition builds on the first edition and includes two new chapters on composite fittings and the design of a composite panel, as well additional exercises. The book enables graduate students and engineers to generate meaningful and robust designs of complex composite structures. A compilation of analysis and design methods for structural components made of advanced composites, it begins with simple...

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