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Collapse Analysis, Defect Sensitivity and Load Paths in Stiffened Shell Composite Structures

D.W. Kelly¹, M.C.W. Lee¹, A.C. Orifici^2,3, R.S.Thomson³, R. Degenhardt^4,5

1 University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
3 Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4 German Aerospace Center, Braunschweig, Germany
5 Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, Stade, Germany