Say we consider a beam made up of thin layers (laminae) aligned with the longitudinal axis of the beam, and for which the laminae can slide with respect to each other along the longitudinal axis as ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (2018), pp. 1009-1029 (21 pages) Short-wavelength wrinkles that appear on an initially stretched thin elastic plate under transverse loading are ...

For transverse loading of the composite, the components experience the same stress and for this isostress situation the total transverse strain of the composite is just the sum of the fiber strain and ...

The transverse load P will produce a shear force V in the positive y direction on a mathematical cut through the beam at point “a”. This shear force is directly responsible for the shear stress τ on ...

Three modes of crack formation due to transverse loading are illustrated. In (a) the bonding between the fiber and the matrix fails and the crack results from the stress induced delamination. If the ...