Front Cover -- Failure Criteria in Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites: The World-Wide Failure Exercise -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the editors -- Section 1: The World-Wide Failure Exercise: Its Origin, Concept And Content -- Chapter 1.1 The world-wide failure exercise: Its origin, concept and content -- Section 2: Test Cases, Lamina Data and Experimental Results Under Biaxial Loads -- Chapter 2.1 Lamina properties, lay-up configurations and loading conditions for a range of fibre reinforced composite laminates -- Chapter 2.2 Biaxial test results for strength and deformation of a range of E-glass and carbon fibre reinforced composite laminates: Failure exercise benchmark data -- Section 3: Description of the Individual Failure Theories by their Originators -- Chapter 3.1 Prediction of composite laminate fracture: Micromechanics and progressive fracture -- Chapter 3.2 Failure criteria for use in the design environment -- Chapter 3.3 Stress-based Grant-Sanders method for predicting failure of composite laminates -- Chapter 3.4 Predicting transverse crack formation in cross-ply laminates -- Chapter 3.5 Predictions of the original and truncated maximum-strain failure models for certain fibrous composite laminates -- Chapter 3.6 Predictions of a generalized maximum-shear-stress failure criterion for certain fibrous composite laminates -- Chapter 3.7 Failure analysis of FRP laminates by means of physically based phenomenological models -- Chapter 3.8 Prediction of laminate failure with the Rotem failure criterion -- Chapter 3.9 Prediction of failure envelopes and stress/strain behavior of composite laminates -- Chapter 3.10 A progressive quadratic failure criterion for a laminate -- Chapter 3.11 A strain-energy based failure criterion for non-linear analysis of composite laminates subjected to biaxial loading.

Chapter 3.12 The strength of multilayered composites under a plane-stress state -- Chapter 3.13 Predicting the nonlinear response and progressive failure of composite laminates -- Chapter 3.14 The predictive capability of failure mode concept-based strength criteria for multidirectional laminates -- Chapter 3.15 Composite laminate failure analysis using multicontinuum theory -- Chapter 3.16 A bridging model prediction of the ultimate strength of composite laminates subjected to biaxial loads -- Chapter 3.17 Expanding the capabilities of the Ten-Percent Rule for predicting the strength of fibre-polymer composites -- Section 4: A Comparative Study of Failure Theories and Predictions for Fibre Polymer Composite Laminates: Part (A) -- Chapter 4.1 A comparative study of failure theories and predictions for fibre polymer composite laminates: Part (A) -- Section 5: Comparison Between the Individual Theoretical Predictions and Experimental Results -- Chapter 5.1 Application of progressive fracture analysis for predicting failure envelopes and stress-strain behaviors of composite laminates: A comparison with experimental results -- Chapter 5.2 Failure criteria for use in the design environment -- Chapter 5.3 A comparison of theory and experiment for the stress-based Grant-Sanders method -- Chapter 5.4 Comparison between theories and test data concerning the strength of various fibre-polymer composites -- Chapter 5.5 Prediction of ply crack formation and failure in laminates -- Chapter 5.6 Failure analysis of FRP laminates by means of physically based phenomenological models -- Chapter 5.7 The Rotem failure criterion: Theory and practice -- Chapter 5.8 The prediction of failure envelopes and stress/strain behavior of composite laminates: Comparison with experimental results -- Chapter 5.9 A progressive quadratic failure criterion, part B.

Chapter 5.10 A strain-energy-based non-linear failure criterion: Comparison of numerical predictions and experimental observations for symmetric composite laminates -- Chapter 5.11 A coupled analysis of experimental and theoretical results on the deformation and failure of composite laminates under a state of plane stress -- Chapter 5.12 Predicting the nonlinear response and failure of composite laminates: Correlation with experimental results -- Chapter 5.13 The predictive capability of failure mode concept-based strength criteria for multi-directional laminates - Part B -- Chapter 5.14 A comparison of multicontinuum theory based failure simulation with experimental results -- Chapter 5.15 Correlation of the bridging model predictions of the biaxial failure strengths of fibrous laminates with experiments -- Section 6: Predictive Capabilities of Nineteen Failure Theories and Design Methodologies for Polymer Composite Laminates: Part B: Comparison With Experiments -- Chapter 6.1 Predictive capabilities of nineteen failure theories and design methodologies for polymer composite laminates. Part B: Comparison with experiments -- Section 7: Recommendations for Designers and Researchers Resulting from the World-Wide Failure Exercise -- Chapter 7.1 Recommendations for designers and researchers resulting from the world-wide failure exercise -- Author Index.