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Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1. Presentation of an Aeronautical Unidirectional Composite; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Carbon/epoxy composite T300/914; 1.3. Polymers; 2. Characteristics of UD Ply; 2.1. State of stress of UD ply; 2.2. Tensile test in the l-direction; 2.3. Tensile test along the t-direction; 2.4. Shear test; 2.5. General case; 3. Characteristics of a UD Ply in a Given Direction; 3.1. Off-axis tensile test; 4. Fracture of a Laminated Composite; 4.1. Fracture of a UD ply; 4.1.1. Longitudinal tension

4.1.2. Longitudinal compression4.1.3. Transverse tension; 4.1.4. Transverse compression; 4.1.5. In-plane shear; 4.2. Fracture of a laminate; 5. Fracture Criteria of a UD Ply; 5.1. Maximum stress fracture criterion; 5.2. Maximum strain fracture criterion; 5.3. Hill's criterion; 5.4. Tsai-Wu criterion; 5.5. Yamada-Sun criterion; 5.6. Conclusion; 6. Membrane Behavior of a Laminated Composite Plate; 6.1. Generalities and notations; 6.2. Membrane behavior, bending behavior and mirror symmetry; 6.3. Resultant forces; 6.4. Displacement field, stress field and strain field

6.5. Tension / shear coupling7. Bending Behavior of a Laminated Composite Plate; 7.1. Notations; 7.2. Resultant moments; 7.3. Displacement field, stress field and strain field; 7.4. Bending/twisting coupling; 8. The Fracture Criterion of a Laminate; 8.1. The sizing criterion; 8.2. Test on a composite structure; 8.3. Sizing principle; 8.4. Sizing a given structure for a given loading; 8.5. Optimal structure for a given load; 9. Damage Tolerance; 9.1. The principle of damage tolerance; 9.2. Damage during impact and compression after impact; 9.3. Sizing for impact damage tolerance

10. Interlaminar and Out-of-Plane Shear Stress10.1. Tension of a cross-ply laminate [0,90]S; 10.2. Tension of a cross-ply laminate [45,-45]S; 10.3. Out-of-plane shear stress; 11. Holed and Bolted Plates; 11.1. Calculating holed composite plates; 11.2. Calculating the multi-bolt composite joints; 12. Buckling; 12.1. Reminder surrounding beam buckling; 12.2. Buckling of plates under compression; 12.3. Plate buckling under shear loading; 13. Miscellaneous Rules for Stacking; 14. Exercises; 14.1. Experimental determination of the characteristics of a UD material; 14.2. Fracture of a laminate

14.3. Shear modulus14.4. Optimization of stacking sequence; 14.5. Composite tube; 14.6. Laminate calculation without calculation; 14.7. Sandwich beam under bending; 14.8. Laminate plate under compression; 14.9. Tube under torsion/internal pressure; 14.10. Optimization of a fabric with a strain fracture criterion; 14.10.1. Part 1: preamble; 14.10.2. Part 2: quasi-isotropic stacking sequence; 14.10.3. Part 3: stacking sequence optimization; 14.10.4. Part 4: stacking sequence optimization under bending; 14.11. Open hole tensile test; 14.12. Multi-bolt composite joint