Front Cover -- Analysis of Composite Laminates -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Biography -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1 Composite analysis overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 History of composites -- 1.1.2 Applications of composites in aircrafts -- 1.2 Composite laminates -- 1.2.1 Definition and constituents -- 1.2.2 Plies -- 1.2.3 Laminates -- 1.3 Analysis schemes -- 1.3.1 Basic analysis schemes -- 1.3.2 Basic equations -- 1.3.3 Existing analysis theories -- 1.3.4 Challenges -- 1.3.5 Future developments -- 1.4 General Hooke's law -- 1.4.1 Hyperelastic materials -- 1.4.2 Monoclinic materials -- 1.4.3 Orthotropic materials -- 1.4.4 Isotropic materials -- 1.4.5 Plane stress-reduced constitutive relations -- 1.4.6 Transformation of material coefficients -- 1.5 Energy principles -- 1.5.1 Virtual displacement principle -- 1.5.2 Hamilton's principle -- 1.5.3 Mixed variational principles -- References -- 2 Shear deformation theories -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Classical laminated plate theory -- 2.2.1 Displacement fields -- 2.2.2 Kinematic equation -- 2.2.3 Constitutive equations -- 2.2.4 Governing equations -- 2.3 First-order shear deformation theory -- 2.3.1 Displacement fields -- 2.3.2 Kinematic equation -- 2.3.3 Shear correction factors -- 2.3.4 Constitutive equations -- 2.3.5 Governing equations -- 2.4 High-order shear deformation theories -- 2.4.1 Second-order shear deformation theory -- 2.4.2 Third-order shear deformation theory -- 2.4.3 Higher-order shear deformation theories -- 2.5 Finite element formulations -- 2.5.1 CLPT -- 2.5.2 FSDT -- 2.5.3 TSDT -- 2.5.4 Numerical examples -- References -- 3 State space theory -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Hamiltonian canonical equation of laminated plates -- 3.2.1 Hamiltonian canonical equation of individual layer -- 3.2.2 Exact solution of simply support single layer plates.