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Volume 14, Issue 9
1 September 1942
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| September 01 1942

‘Failure’: A New Definition Needed

E. Pribram, A.F.R.Ae.S.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1942
Aircraft Engineering (1942) 14 (9): 258–259.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb030941

ENGINEERING structures are built for use, but stressed for failure. The underlying assumption is obviously that a structure is fit to be used until it is loaded by a failing load or loads, when it collapses and becomes unable to fulfil its original functions.

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