For decades, Composite Materials: Design and Applications has guided readers on the efficient design of structural composite parts and has illustrated challenges encountered in modern engineering practice. The Fourth Edition of this perennial best-seller, now including a foreword by Professor Stephen Tsai, retains its pedagogical structure, featuring a technical level that rises in difficulty as the text progresses, while allowing each part to be explored independently, but has been updated to mirror recent advances and developments in manufacturing processes and applications. * Gives numerous examples of the pre-sizing of composite parts, processed from industrial cases and reworked to highlight key information * Provides a design method to define composite multilayered plates under loading, along with all numerical information needed for implementation * Includes test cases for the validation of computer software using finite elements * Proposes original study of composite beams of