there isn't "a way carbon fiber fails", it fails according to how the structure was designed, and how the carbon fiber is utilized. buckling delaminations -- e

there isn't "a way carbon fiber fails", it fails according to how the structure was designed, and how the carbon fiber is utilized. buckling delaminations -- espescially when alongside honeycomb or similar substrates -- very much looks like a 'crumpling'; unless you want to classify all epoxy matrix failures as a 'shattering', but I think that's far too generous given the variety of failure modes. [0]:https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Compressive-failure-modes-of-fibre-composites-a-Elastic-micro-buckling-b-Fibre_fig9_245573502 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Compressive-failure-mode...