... more demanding struc-tural applications, have design methods evolved.In designing with ductile materials, a safety-factor approach is used. Metals can beused under static loads within a small ... pin of a pin-jointed frame, made ofmetal, fits poorly, then the metal deforms locally, and the pin beds down, redistribut-ing the load. But if the pin and frame are made of a brittle material, ... Morrell, Design with Non-Ductile Materials, AppliedScience Publishers, 1982. D. W. Richardson, Modern Ceramic Engineering, Marcel Dekker, 1982. (d) PolymersDuPont Design Handbooks, DuPont de Nemours...