Thanks Ed Clymer. Some useful stuff in there.
A lot of the methods have been developed by and for aerospace which doesn't have the same level of prescriptive design methods as the sort of structure that Jason8zhu seems interested in. Methods and allowables are usually covered in companies' copyrighted specs, although some are commercially available (e.g., M.C.Y. Niu, Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing and Composite Airframe Structures). There are a lot more references tucked away in posts here in Eng-Tips. Works on marine composites can be helpful being sort of half way between airframe and static civil structures (look for authors Eric Greene and Marcio Vasconcellos; they've both put textbooks on the net, both called Marine Composites). There are similar aspects to wind turbine design and searching the net can yield useful references (try looking for "optimat composite").
There's a lot of useful stuff in CMH-17 (descendent of MIL-HDBK-17, sort-of-a-bit-like-but-not-really MIL-HDBK-5 for composites). Googling CMH-17 gives a lot of options for downloading CMH-17 and MIL-HDBK-17 (one of the first hits is
For basic materials information search for NIAR NCAMP and see the data held by the organization based in Wichita, where there is a valiant attempt to make composites data public and reduce costs of accessing material data.
Note that Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, eighth ed has a section on composite materials (not sure how useful it is but it's at least a beginning of material (probably) relevant to civil engineering).
Those of us involved in designing the types of civil structures sometimes needed in aerospace companies (ground support equipment, test rigs and tooling are the main items in this category) use a simplified version of the usual aerospace methods, but these are almost always based on simple allowable stress design (ASD) and may fall short of requirements which need to include some aspects of load and resistance factor design (LRFD).
