The study has become known within the composites community as the 'World-Wide Failure Exercise' (WWFE) and in some circles, the 'Failure Olympics'. The paper includes a comprehensive description of the process by which the theories were selected, a brief description of the theories themselves, ...
The paper is aimed at providing an overview of some of the lessons learnt from the 'World-Wide Failure Exercise' (WWFE). This uniquely organised Exercise was launched by the authors to establish the status of currently available theoretical methods for predicting material failure in fibre ...
The World-Wide Failure Exercise (WWFE) contained a detailed assessment of 19 theoretical approaches for predicting the deformation and failure response of polymer composite laminates when subjected to complex states of stress. The leading five theories are explored in greater detail to demonstrate their...
The 'World-Wide Failure Exercise' (WWFE) was launched by the authors, some 10 years ago, toestablish the status of currently available theoretical methods for predicting material failure in fibrereinforced polymer composites materials. The 'exercise' has encompassed 19...
How well can we predict failure?' is one of the big questions that has been the focus of a benchmark activity, known as the 'World-Wide Failure Exercise' (WWFE). The main and real contributors to the WWFE are the originators of representative failure criteria for fibre reinforced polymer ...
This paper gives an account of the background to the Second World-Wide Failure Exercise, the process of completing the first part (Part A) and a summary of key conclusions.doi:10.1177/0021998312449885Hinton, M.Kaddour, A.SAGE PublicationsJournal of Composite Materials...
WWFE-IIThe second world-wide failure exercise is an international activity, organised by Kaddour and Hinton, aiming at a better understanding of the limitations of existing failure criteria to predict failure under triaxial stressing. The present work is a response to an invitation to take part ...