Jacob Aboudi is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He was formerly Head of the University's Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, and Dean of their Faculty of Engineering. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Strathclyde,?Northwestern?University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia, and has over 45 years of research experience. He has written over 300 journal articles and 2 prior books.
Steven M. Arnold is the Technical Lead for Multiscale Modeling within the Materials and Structures Division at NASA Glenn Research?Center, Ohio, USA. He was awarded NASA's Exceptional Service Medal in 2019, the ASC/DEStech Award in Composites for 2015, NASA's Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in 2014, and the NASA Glenn Abe Silverstein outstanding research award in 2004. He is co-founder and current Chairman of the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC), an ASM International Fellow and has over 30 years of research experience resulting in over 440 technical publications and 2 U.S. patents.
Brett A.?Bednarcyk?is a Senior Research Engineer in the Materials and Structures Division at NASA Glenn Research?Center, Ohio, USA. He serves as a composite expert for NASA Space Launch Systems (SLS) projects and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center Structures Technical Discipline Team. He has held visiting appointments at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the University of Virginia. He was awarded the NASA Glenn Abe Silverstein outstanding research award in 2015 and NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2013. He has over 20 years of research experience, over 300 technical publications, and is the primary developer of NASA's MAC/GMC composites software.

1. Introduction
2. Lamination theory using macromechanics
3. Closed form micromechanics
4. Failure criteria and margins of safety
5. The generalized method of cells (GMC) micromechanics theory
6. The high-fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC) micromechanics theory
7. Progressive damage and failure
Material properties
RUCs

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