World-Wide Failure Exercise

Hinton E, Kaddour AS, Soden PD. Failure criteria in fibre reinforced polymer composites the world-wide failure exercise. Amsterdam Elsevier, 2004. 

Hinton, M.J., Kaddour, A.S., Soden, P.D., 2004. The World-Wide Failure Exercise its origin, concept and content. In Failure Criterion in Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites The World-wide Failure Exercise. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 2—26. 

The failure of laminate composites is a topic that has been researched for over 50 years. Currently, there are many competing theories on laminate failnre. Typically, the failure theories are used to estimate the nominal layup of a laminate followed by experimental verification. The most noteworthy attempt to reconcile the various composite failure theories was The World-Wide Failure Exercise. This exercise had its genesis in a meeting held in 1991. After the meeting the authors conceived of the selection of test samples and biaxial loading cases for a pressurized tubular test specimen (see Table 9.1). 

Source Reprinted from Failure Criteria in Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites The World-Wide Failure Exercise, Hinton, M. J., A. S. Kaddour, and P. D. Soden, eds., Elsevier, London, 2004, with permission from Elsevier. 

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