“…In experimental studies of simple cylindrical composite shells of revolution under internal explosive loading, it was established that a criterion of their strength can be the ultimate (at the failure threshold) hoop strain of the shell, which under dynamic conditions is 2-2.5 times higher than the similar quasistatic value for the employed composite [13,14,18,21,23,31]. It is shown that the ultimate strain of fiberglass and organic plastic materials depends on the strain rate [24]; at a strain rate of ≈1 000 sec −1 , it approaches the ultimate strain of defect-free fiber.…”