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Dear all,

We compiled some data presented by Altenbach & Tushtev [1], which
collected data from Ol’khovik [2,3] and Ol’khovik, Figovsky & Feigin [4].

Dear participants,

Please download the three papers that Prof. Tay
kindly sent to us as assignments for his session #9.

Thanks,

Carlos

We would like to again congratulate the winner of the contest of assignment 5, Michael Wiener. The book will be mailed soon.

Question:

Under tensile stress why do you see matrix cracking in the
90 plies of a 0/90 laminate before failure of the 0 ply such

We were warned by Dmitry that there is a typo on Equation 3.7 (Section
3, page 3.8, item 3.4) for the multiple angle transformation. It says:

m^4 = (3 + COS2T + COS4T)/8,

Dear tutorial participants,

As we approach to the halfway of our tutorial, we would
like to have some feedback from you concerning the
material presented, the system, the support, etc. The

Just to remind you guys, we will have Extra Sessions Monday,
May 5, 8AM and 8PM California time, to present an introductory
tutorial to MicMac. Prof. Tsai and Pranav will give a more detailed

People from EMBRAER asked a question concerning the union between the
composite blades to the steel hub on the wind turbines. The question was:

Dear all:

The deadline for all homework assignments is always the next session
(next Tuesday) after the assignment is issued. Exceptionally we will

There was one lat question on today's session 3 that could not be addressed
by the speaker, Prof. Antonio Miravete. The question was:

In last session there was a discussion on failure envelopes of hybrid
composites. The comments were especially addressed to GLARE. The

Dear all,

Some of you experienced audio problems on Prof. Tsai lecture yesterday. We
would like to thank you very much for your feedback. We need this kind of

Some of you reported that getting the error message below while trying to log in
on the WebEx webpage:

Error 500--Internal Server Error

I received a request by John Gurbach that might interested all the participants:

"Billy made reference to a couple of articles that were reading assignments for session #1.

Dear all,

Welcome to our Composites Design Tutorial. This time Paranav developed a much better forum so that you can get all information regarding the tutorial.