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Many of the most devastating structural failures have been caused by instability, that is, buckling in one form or another, see e.g. Levy and Salvadori (1992), who claim that most of the important structural catastrophes throughout the history were due to loss of stability.
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Byskov, E. (2013). Stability: Buckling. In: Elementary Continuum Mechanics for Everyone. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5766-0_16
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