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Any recommendations for textbooks addressing designing, especially
stress
analysis, with composite materials?

Composite design can be a difficult task to take on as a beginner.
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My past experience with stress analysis has been with homogeneous
materials, principly stainless steel pressure vessels. Dunno if
that makes me a beginner or not. The specific project I have in
mind in the short term is to learn to do stress analysis for
composite materials as I figure that is a prerequisite for every-
thing else I may want to do.

You can't design something if you've no way to determine how
strong (or stiff) it will be.

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