The standard method generally used to determine the strength coefficients in the tensor polynomial failure criterion is re-examined. Alternative methods for calculating these strength parameters are proposed and compared using previously published experimental data for paperboard. For this material it is shown that the proposed alternative methods can lead to better analytical descriptions of the experimentally-determined failure envelopes.
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