Buckling is the sudden geometric failure of structures in a direction perpendicular to the load applied. It is a well-studied phenomenon under compression. The idea of buckling associated with tensile loads is a relatively newly discovered phenomenon, and as such has not been thoroughly studied. For that purpose, we carried out experiments that aim to clarify the buckling behaviour of multicomponent (or multi-unit) structure due to tensile load. By varying the structural geometrical conditions, we experimentally study the factors determining the buckling modes of structure in tension. A series of experiments is conducted to measure the critical buckling load and geometrical formation under those conditions as well as studying how the buckling load depends on the number of unit structures. Finally, a simple analytical model is developed to explain the behavior of the multicomponent tensile buckling based on Weibull's statistical weakest link theory.
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