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Cracks in fiberglass pipes

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The conditions of formation of circumferential cracks in fiberglass pipes owing to the presence of residual radial tensile stresses are examined on the basis of the Griffith theory.

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A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 370–372, March–April, 1974.

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Kachanov, L.M. Cracks in fiberglass pipes. Polymer Mechanics 10, 314–315 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00860837

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