2 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:3
1 balanced laminate, n—a continuous fiber-reinforcedlaminate in which each +ulamina, measured with respect to thelaminate reference axis, is balanced by a –ulamina of the samematerial (for example, [0/+45/–45/+45/–45/0])
2 short-beam strength, n—the shear stress as calculatedin Eq 1, developed at the specimen mid-plane at the failureevent specified in 11
1 Discussion—Although shear is the dominant appliedloading in this test method, the internal stresses are complexand a variety of failure modes can occur
Elasticity solutions byBerg et al (1)7, Whitney (2), and Sullivan and Van Oene (3)have all demonstrated inadequacies in classical beam theory indefining the stress state in the short-beam configuration
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