Normally the cause of failure, stress concentrations are introduced in laminated plates in the forms of circular holes, elliptical openings and straight cracks. These forms of cutouts have many practical applications, and are familiar to most engineers. This book studies all the subjects closely related to the problem of stress concentrations in laminated composites All the models are verified with many experimental results. This comprehensive study gives the readers an in-depth and thorough understanding of the problem of stress concentrations in composites.