1981 advances in aerospace structures and materials; Proceedings of the Winter Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 15-20, 1981

Among the topics discussed are the viscoelastic deformation and failure behavior of composite materials with distributed flaws, failure mechanisms in metal matrix composite laminates, the fatigue behavior of adhesively bonded joints, the effects of moisture on the mechanical properties of glass/epoxy composites, the vibration and buckling of thick cylindrical shells of bimodulus composite materials, and the turbulence-excited flapping motion of a rotor blade in hovering flight. Also considered are the creep postbuckling of plates, a variational formulation and incremental solution of elastoplastic torsion, a nonlinear theory of general solid-section beams, macro- and micro-mechanical aspects of creep fracture, and the interface crack in a shear and bending field.