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Slender columns

Slender columns have a greater tendency to fail in which of the following ways?
A. corrosion, B. fatigue, C. fracture, D. buckling, E. thermal shock, F. impact, G. creep


D. buckling - is correct.
Buckling in slender columns tends to take place before the normal stress exceeds the strength of the column material.

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