Maximizing the Strength of Fiber Bundles under Uniform Loading

Soumyajyoti Biswas1,2, Parongama Sen3

  • 1The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India.

Physical Review Letters
|November 10, 2015
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