Daniel Gay led the Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse, now the Institut Clément Ader, from its inception for over 15 years. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Dr. Gay has authored numerous articles, scientific publications, and industrial reports on composite materials and structures. He has taught at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels in many schools and institutions, including the Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (UPS), Instituts Universitaires de Technologie (IUT), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), and École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA).

PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION.

1. Composite Materials: Interest and Physical Properties.

2. Manufacturing Processes.

3. Mechanical Properties of Reinforcement-Matrix Associations

4. Sandwich Structures.

5. Conception: Design and Drawing.

6. Conception: Fastening and Joining.

7. Composite Materials and Aerospace Construction.

8. Composite Materials for Various Applications.

PART 2: MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF LAMINATED MATERIALS.

9. Anisotropic Elastic Medium.

10. Elastic Constants of Unidirectional Composites.

11. Elastic Constants of a Ply in Any Direction.

12. Mechanical Behavior of Thin Laminated Plates.

PART 3: JUSTIFICATIONS, D-D LAMINATES, COMPOSITE BEAMS, AND TRANSVERSE SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF MULTILAYERED PLATES.

13. Elastic Coefficients.

14. Damage in Composite Parts; Failure Criteria.

15. Quasi-Orthotropic Homogenized Laminates or D-D Laminates.

16. Bending of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape.

17. Torsion of Composite Beams of Any Section Shape.

18. Transverse Shear Behavior of Multilayered Plates.

PART 4: APPLICATIONS.

19. Applications Level 1.

20. Applications Level 2.

21. Applications Level 3.

Appendix A: Stresses in the Plies of a Carbon/Epoxy Quadrangle Symmetric Laminate Loaded in Its Plane.

Appendix B: Buckling of Orthotropic Structures