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To a structural engineer the in-service and the miscellaneous properties of materials are just as important as the mechanical properties; indeed the long-term in-service characteristics of a material are interrelated with its mechanical properties.
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Hollaway, L. (1993). End-use performance properties of structural polymer composites. In: Polymer Composites for Civil and Structural Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2136-1_6
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