TLP contents
Main pages
- Aims
- Before you start
- Introduction
- Stiffness of long fibre composites
- Strength of long fibre composites
- Composite vaulting poles – why don´t they break?
- Toughness of composites and fibre pull–out
- Off–axis loading of a lamina
- Stiffness of laminates
- Tensile–shear interactions and balanced laminates
- Out–of–plane stresses and symmetric laminates
- Failure of laminates and the Tsai–Hill criterion
- Summary
- Questions
- Going further
Additional pages
Media resources
- Ashby property map (image)
- axial_failure (image)
- axial-loading-diagram (image)
- diagram_for_interfacial_debonding (image)
- diagram_for_pull-ou (image)
- transverse_model (image)
- flash_stress_conc_factor (image)
- shear-failure (image)
- slab_model (image)
- stress_tensor (image)
- svf_graph 2 (image)
- svf_graph 4 (image)
- sym_materials (image)
- transverse-failure (image)
- transverse-loading-diagram (image)
- Fibre pull out sim (Flash)
- Axial stiffness (Flash)
- Coupling stresses (Flash)
- Cross ply laminate (Flash)
- Axial strength (Flash)
- Definitions (Flash)
- Eshelby drop down box (Flash)
- Failure criteria (Flash)
- Stiffness trial graph (Flash)
- Laminate failure (Flash)
- Merit index derivation (Flash)
- Resolving procedure (Flash)
- Strain field (Flash)
- Tensile shear interaction graph (Flash)
- Transverse stiffness sim (Flash)
- Transverse strength (Flash)
- Vaulting pole (Flash)
- Vaulting pole (video)
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