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Continuous-fiber reinforced structural composite materials are typically classified as “brittle,” with strains to break in the principal fiber directions of only a percent or so. However, fiber architectures and material choices provide“ ductility” that is highly dependent on microstructure. Woven glass-reinforced polymer systems, for example, with strains to break on the order of 20 percent for uniaxial loading in off-axis directions are now in common use in a variety of applications, including Naval structures. An example of such behaviour for three different strain rates is shown in Fig. 1.
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Reifsnider, K., Xing, L. (2007). Large-Deformation Constitutive Theories for Structural Composites: Rate Dependent Concepts and Effect of Microstructure. In: Gdoutos, E.E. (eds) Experimental Analysis of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6239-1_12
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