Introduction to Composite Materials Design

Presenting a wealth of revised examples and new information, this book strengthens the pedagogy and streamlines the content to make it easier to teach chapters 1–7 in one semester, adds new exercises and comprehensive examples with emphasis on design in each chapter, adds material on sustainable and natural fibers and matrix subsections, and updates ACI code. The solutions manual is updated, adding intermediary steps to more fully explain solutions. It expands coverage of introductory design for reliability. Featuring the largest set of state-of the art topics in an introductory composites textbook it also links to free cloud-based software for the preliminary design of composite materials.