When structures made of composite materials are designed to be used in load bearing
applications, a primary consideration is the evaluation of their load carrying capacity in …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the recent developments
concerning Saint-Venant's principle. The task of determining, within the framework of the …

Extensively updated and maintaining the high standard of the popular original, Principles of
Composite Material Mechanics, Second Edition reflects many of the recent developments in …

Over the last three decades, the evolution of techniques for the experimental testing of
composite materials has struggled to keep up with the advances and broadening areas of …

The simplifications arising in elasticity theory from consideration of resultant boundary
conditions instead of mathematically exact pointwise conditions have been the key to …

A consistent theory for thin anisotropic layered structures is developed starting from
asymptotic analysis of 3D equations in linear elasticity. The consideration is not restricted to …

Evaluation and simulation of the multiaxial mechanical behavior of native and engineered
soft tissues is becoming more prevalent. In spite of this growing use, testing methods have …

The intent of this expository paper is to draw the attention of the applied mathematics
community to an interesting two-dimensional mathematical model arising in solid mechanics …

Abstract Characterization of the three-dimensional stress field of concrete materials is crucial
to understanding their mechanical properties and failure mechanisms, but their hidden and …

Beam theory plays an important role in structural analysis. The basic assumption is that
initially plane sections remain plane after deformation, neglecting out-of-plane warpings …