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A Thionnet1, A R Bunsell2

  • 1Centre des Matériaux Mines ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7633, BP 87, 91003 Evry Cedex, France Université de Bourgogne, Mirande, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France anthony.bunsell@gmail.com.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|June 1, 2016
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clusters of breakscritical damageeffects of monotonic and sustained tensile loadingfibre breaks

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