Anisotropic Elastic Plates

From the reviews:

“This book is devoted to anisotropic elasticity, mechanics of composite materials and fracture mechanics, and connects theoretical treatment and numerical analysis. … the book by Hwu is appropriate to be a university textbook for the course of anisotropic elasticity. … a good reference book for the courses of plates and shells, elasticity, fracture mechanics, mechanics of composite materials. This well-written book is also a reader-friendly and good-organised handbook for engineers, textbook for students, and simultaneously is a research monograph in the field of anisotropic elasticity.” (Igor Andrianov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1196, 2010)

“Structures, particularly those composed of composite materials, are often modeled as being composed of anisotropic elastic plates; this book is written for beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as for researchers interested in understanding such plates.” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, December, 2010)