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This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in Mathematics. Using elementary row operations and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization as basic tools the text develops characterization of equivalence and similarity, and various factorizations such as rank factorization, OR-factorization, Schurtriangularization, Diagonalization of normal matrices, Jordan decomposition, singular value decomposition, and polar decomposition. Along with Gauss-Jordan elimination for linear systems, it also discusses best approximations and least-squares solutions. The book includes norms on matrices as a means to deal with iterative solutions of linear systems and exponential of a matrix. The topics in the book are dealt with in a lively manner. Each section of the book has exercises to reinforce the concepts, and problems have been added at the end of each chapter. Most of these problems are theoretical, and they do not fit into the running text linearly. The detailed coverage and pedagogical tools make this an ideal textbook for students and researchers enrolled in senior undergraduate and beginning postgraduate mathematics courses.

Presenting a new set of 158 solved problems and projects to supplement the Examples and Exercises available in the textbook Introduction to Composite Materials Design-THIRD edition from CRC Press (2018). This is a companion to that textbook, with frequent cross-referencing guiding the reader to the equations, figures, tables, and specific sections of the textbook relevant for understanding every part of the solution to each of the problems. This workbook does not contain solutions for the Exercises at the end of the chapters in the textbook. Instead, this workbook offers a completely new set of problems, accompanied by detailed step-by-step solutions. These include additional explanations, new figures, and new references to popular design handbooks, material property data, and other sources from the literature. As well as solved problems, this workbook features several complete term-paper ideas in Chapters 2 (Materials) and 3 (Processing). Each idea provides a brief introduction to the solution of each term-paper, and a few citations as a starting point for further study. The Appendix contains a number of project ideas challenging enough to be assigned as semester-long team projects. At the end of each chapter, additional challenge exercises provide an additional opportunity for the reader to master the subject. Most problems are solved by hand, showing every step, with all numerical values substituted into equations from the textbook, ending with the numerical answer to the problem. Wherever computer code is helpful for completing the calculations, the code has been written and displayed using the free, open source language Scilab(TM), similar to MATLAB(R). A few problems are also solved using the free on-line application CADEC (http://cadec-online.com). The THIRD edition of the textbook "Introduction to Composite Materials Design (2018)" implements a number of additions and changes with respect to the second edition. The sign of bending moment is reversed to agree with the standard Mechanics of Materials convention, so all problems involving moment and curvature have been updated. The numbering of Equations, Sections, and Tables are updated. Each table that was landscape in the second edition is now split into two tables to make it easier to read the eBook version of the textbook in portrait mode, so tables numbering has changed significantly. New topics have been added such as Basis Values, Temperature-Dependent Properties, Universal Carpet Plots (in three chapters), and many more, requiring new Problems in this WorkBook. Some equations are rewritten to simplify numerical computations, and those changes are reflected in this WorkBook. In summary, one cannot use the old WorkBook with the third edition of the textbook. Furthermore, this edition has more problems, more Scilab code, and more thorough explanations of the solutions.

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