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A Critique of the World Wide Failure Exercise
The World-Wide Failure Exercise (WWFE) was an international research project with the goal of assessing the predictive performance of competing failure models for composite materials. Part I (WWFE-I) focused on failure in fiber-reinforced polymer composites under two-dimensional (2D) stresses and ran from 1996 until 2004. Part II was concerned with failure criteria under both 2D and 3D stresses, and ran between 2007 and 2013. Part III, also launched in 2007, was concerned with damage development in multi-directional composite laminates.
