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Title: Average text, but not worth the money
Review: The text does provide some useful Matlab scripts and a good introduction to mechanics of composites, but quite frankly it is not worth the $225 price that Amazon is asking for. If you are very new to Matlab, then the scripts are very helpful. However if you're a novice with some exposure, all of the given scripts could be created with relative ease. I was very disappointed with the section on failure theories. The Max Stress/Strain, Tsia-Hill and Tsai-Wu section was only 5 pages long. It looked much like a copy/paste of a Wikipedia page, only showing the fundamental equations and nothing more. There are no scripts provided for failure analysis either, which would have been more useful then the elementary scripts provided. It can be a useful text, but only if you can get a very cheap copy.
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