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Failure Mechanisms and Criteria

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Mechanics of Composite Structural Elements

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Failure of structural elements can be defined in a different manner. As in the case of buckling, a structural element may be considered failure though the material is still intact, but there are excessive deformations. In Chap. 6 failure will be considered to be the loss of integrity of the composite material itself.

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Altenbach, H., Altenbach, J., Kissing, W. (2018). Failure Mechanisms and Criteria. In: Mechanics of Composite Structural Elements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8935-0_6

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