Thispaper documentsthe resultsof work undertaken to evaluate the effects of eccentric loading conditions on the surface shear strains and stress distributions in layered quasi-laminar composite on opposite faces of the specimen as well as more pronounced shear stress gradients through-thickness. It has also been shown in this research that the effect of eccentric loads on the through-thickness shear stress and strain gradients in the Iosipescu specimens depends very strongly on the loading block geometries.
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