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The earlier chapters of this book have examined in detail an introduction to how flat panels behave under in-plane loads or moments. The thin flat plate, and (to an approximation) the thin singly-curved panel, is a two-dimensional structural element. It is clearly the fundamental building block for composite structures, and it is therefore essential that the behaviour of the flat plate is well-understood before looking at more complicated structures. Even with the detail studied in the previous chapters, we have not covered all possible types of loading situations — transverse loading of plates is obviously missing — but to cover this would require a much deeper knowledge of the theory of plates and shells than we have space to cover within the scope of Chapter 2 for isotropic materials and in the rest of this book for composites: for further details the reader is advised to consult more advanced texts cited in the bibliography.
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Further Reading
Datoo, M.H. (1991) Mechanics of Fibrous Composites, Elsevier.
Murray, N.W. (1984) Introduction to the Theory of Thin-walled Structures, Oxford University Press. (Isotropic materials only)
Tsai, S.W. (1988) Composites Design (4th edn), Think Composites.
Vinson, J.R. and Sierakowski, R.L. (1986) The behaviour of Structures Composed of Composite Materials, Nijhoff.
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Powell, P.C. (1994). Stiffness of thin-walled structures. In: Engineering with Fibre-Polymer Laminates. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0723-5_8
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