Module 6: Failure and Damage
  Lecture 22: Macroscopic Failure Theories
 

Introduction
           
In the previous lecture we have seen maximum stress theory, maximum strain theory and Tsai-Hill theory. The former two theories are similar but do not have interaction with other stress or strain components. The Tsai-Hill theory is quadratic in stress and has interactive terms. In this lecture we will see some more failure theories for composite. Then we will see some numerical examples.

The Lecture Contains

Hoffman Theory

Tensor Polynomial Failure Criterion

Examples

Homework

References