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Series Editors: The Rectors Manuel Garcia Velarde - Madrid Mahir Sayir - Zurich Wilhelm Schneider - Wien

The Secretary General Bernhard Schrefler - Padua

Former Secretary General Giovanni Bianchi - Milan

Executive Editor Carlo Tasso - Udine

The series presents lecture notes, monographs, edited works and proceedings in the field of Mechanics, Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Purpose of the series is to make known in the international scientific and technical community results obtained in some of the activities organized by CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCES COURSES AND LECTURES - No. 448

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MODERN TRENDS IN COMPOSITE LAMINATES MECHANICS

EDITED BY HOLM ALTENBACH UNIVERSITY HALLE-WITTENBERG WILFRIED BECKER UNIVERSITY SIEGEN

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Springer-Verlag Wien GmbH

This volume contains 85 illustrations

This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. © 2003 by Springer-Verlag Wien Originally published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York in 2003

SPIN 10966242

In order to make this volume available as economically and as rapidly as possible the authors' typescripts have been reproduced in their original forms. This method unfortunately has its typographical limitations but it is hoped that they in no way distract the reader.

ISBN 978-3-211-20302-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-2544-1

ISBN 978-3-7091-2544-1 (eBook)

PREFACE

Due to their superior specific strength and stiffness characteristics and their adaptability to given structural needs composite laminate materials are not only successful in the fields of aircraft and spacecraft constructions but also gain more spread in the classical fields of mechanical engineering. At the same time the specific demands to the respective composite structures are continuously increasing within each field of application. Correspondingly, a sound understanding of the mechanics of composite laminates becomes important to a continuously increasing group of engineers and with increasing structural demands the methods of mathematical modelling and analysis have to be advanced and have to take into account special effects occurring in connection with the use of composite laminates. The present book reflects the lecture material that was presented in a five-day course on "Modern Trends in Composite Laminates Mechanics" held from July 22 to 26, 2002 at CISM {International Centre for Mechanical Sciences) in Udine, Italy. The aim of the course was to give a clear picture of some new modern trends in composite mechanics and to give a presentation of the current stateof-the-art of the theory and application of composite laminates. To this end the team of lecturers has been chosen in such a way that a good variety of problems and aspects has been covered and treated