A review is made on the di€erent methods used for the estimation of transverse/interlaminar stresses in laminated composite plates and shells. Both analytical and numerical methods are considered. In numerical methods while the emphasis is given on ®nite element methods, other methods like the ®nite di€erence method is also brie ̄y discussed. Aspects considered are: e€ects of variation in geomet...

A wavelet is a basis function used to construct a wavelet transform. The first known wavelet – Haar wavelet was proposed in 1909 by Alfred Haar. Wavelet theory has been applied to various problems including signal processing in communications, image compression-extraction, solution of the linear and nonlinear integral equations etc. Haar wavelet based discretization technique is adopted for sol...