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Lateral buckling tests on rectangular cross-section pultruded GRP cantilever beams.

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Lateral buckling tests on rectangular cross-section pultruded GRP cantilever beams. / Turvey, G. J.
In: Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1996, p. 35-42.

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Turvey GJ. Lateral buckling tests on rectangular cross-section pultruded GRP cantilever beams. Composites Part B: Engineering. 1996;27(1):35-42. doi: 10.1016/1359-8368(95)00004-6

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Turvey, G. J. / Lateral buckling tests on rectangular cross-section pultruded GRP cantilever beams. In: Composites Part B: Engineering. 1996 ; Vol. 27, No. 1. pp. 35-42.

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