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Mechanics Of Composite Materials (Materials Science & Engineering Series)

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When I took a composite materials course as a senior at NCSU, the teacher didn't. In a fit of desperation, I went to the bookstore and looked at all (3) composite books. This one used the same symbology as my prof's lecture notes, so I bought it, despite the price.

What a great investment! The first chapter gives an excellent overview of the "why?" of composites. Chapters 2-end give you everything you every needed to know about composite mechanics (at least at the senior undergraduate level.)

With this book, I learned the material and passed the course quite easily.

Complaint: Like most textbooks, it gives very little coverage of computer modelling. Some, but not as much as I would have liked. It helped me pass the concept parts of the course, but I had to sink-or-swim on my own when it came time to write code.

Other than that complaint, this is an excellent introductory book.

I find this book to be a very handy reference. Sometimes the equations get very involved, but I do like the way the material is presented. The font is kinda wierd (newest edition), but thats just a subjective thing for me. I also like the design section in the back, and the depth of information on design considerations is neat. Including this book, Swanson's analysis book is another good addition for joggling your memory on composite analysis that you took in grad school. :)

This book is just the bible for the stress analyst working with composites.
A must have at your bookshelf.

This is not the easiest textbook I've ever used, but with a class, I was able to use it as a reasonable reference book. I've heard that this is actually one of the better books, which makes me wonder about the other books...

I found this book to be one of those that are hard to put down and I thourougly enjoyed reading through it. That is why I put it on a par with one of Dan Brown's epic novels like "angels and demoms". I even told the guests at a dinner party recently that I was enjoying this book which really caused a bit of a stir! I still need to go back and extract the really useful stuff. Let me give you some background about myself so you can see if you might also find it very valuable. I have been a self employed consulting structural enginner for 40 years designing structures for buildings in steel, concrete, brickwork and timber. I have no experience of fibre composite materials and I plan to get into this field for large radio controlled model aircraft. I have graduate experience in the stiffness method of analysis and wrote my own truss, frame and grid programs for an Apple II machine before the IBM PC was invented in 1983. Having read through this book I feel empowered to start on some of the other design texts with a little bit of confidence in how much I don't know, given how much the composite industry as a whole does not seem to really know. I would recommend this book unreservedly as the best technical book I have ever purchased - and I do have a very large library of structrual texts!

I own the original edition of this text. I borrowed a colleague's copy of the second edition to review before buying my own copy. It didn't take me long to decide that the new edition was an essential purchase. This is THE text to buy if you have an interest in composites.

I'm a final-semester senior at the University of Kentucky in Mechanical Engineering and I purchased this book as required reading for my composites class. Here's the thing: the book doesn't really say that much of anything. It spends all of its time stating equations for particular types of composites without specifying why it's doing it or how it got from equation to equation. As a matter of fact, all the chapter-end review questions seem to be are "hey, bet you can't figure out how we got from equation 4.56 to equation 4.57." It makes for somewhat easier homework because it's simple algebra and trig most of the time, but what am I learning, exactly? I usually try to justify books like this as saying, well, at least maybe I'll use it as a reference book in the future...but this book's just horrible. I would recommend you not buy this unless it's required of you for any particular class. Hope this helps.

We had returned this book along with other four books. Whole order was returned for refund.
But I have not received the refund of $97.96 @ Mechanics of Composite Materials by Robert Jones
Please refund $97.96 ASAP

well written book . more practical application would have been appreciated. more information on trends in grp for next say 10 years