Composite Failure Analysis
Composite Failure Analysis
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The default output for composite failure analysis is the "Failure Index". Is there any way to output the "Margin of Safety" or "Factor of Safety"? For Tsai-Hill or Maximum Stress Criteria, we can calculate the Facotr of Safety from failure index. However, with Tsai-Wu or Hoffman, it is not easy to calculate the factor of safety from the failure index. Any suggestions. Thanks a lot.





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RE: Composite Failure Analysis
RE: Composite Failure Analysis
For Tsai-Hill, FS = 1/Sqrt(FI)
For Tsai-Wu and Hoffman, you have to solve a quadratic equation for FS. There is no simple equations between FS and FI.