Durability Analysis of Structural Composite Systems: Reliability, risk analysis and prediction of safe residual structural integrity - Lectures of the Special Chair AIB-Vincotte 1995

Durability analysis can be defined as the prediction methodology of safe residual behaviour after a given life time under a complex mechanical loading history in combination with a program of environmental variations. This was, and is a central problem for the reliability of structural components whatever are the basic material systems. With composite systems, combination of different materials in interaction, an integrated material structure design becomes possible. If one of the phases is...