7.08 - The Influence of Prior Loading on Structural Integrity

Comprehensive Structural Integrity: Nine Volume Set

Volumn 1-9, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-345

  Smith, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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