...X. W. Chen; Z. Q. Yue Multiple cracks interaction is an important topic in fracture mechanics. The related solutions are helpful to understand the failure process and the toughening mechanism of brittle materials. Previous works on the topic were most for homogenous material. In this paper, we...

... case where only one strain component is considered. References [1] Nguyen , H. T. , Pathirage , M. , Rezaei , M. , Issa , M. , Cusatis , G. , and Bažant , Z. P. , 2020 , “ New Perspective of Fracture Mechanics Inspired by Gap Test With Crack-Parallel Compression...

... was also unsuspected because in the linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) and the cohesive crack model (CCM), the crack is assumed to be a line (of zero width at crack front), while a line cut along the direction of a uniform uniaxial stress field produces no stress change. The transverse normal stress...

... Email: mbacca@mech.ubc.ca Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of A pplied M echanics . 08 06 2020 15 07 2020 15 07 2020 04 12 2020 adhesion fracture mechanics bioinspired fibrillar adhesives elasticity energy...

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... the discrete element method (DEM) to explore the fracture mechanics of several hundreds of 2D tessellations composed of rigid “tiles” bonded by weaker interfaces. We explored crack propagation and fracture toughness in Voronoi-based tessellations (to represent intergranular cracking in polycrystalline...

... were conducted. The results show a significant difference between the mode I and mode II fracturing behaviors. The strength of the DCB specimens scales according to the linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), whereas ENF specimens show a different behavior. For ENF tests, small specimens exhibit...

.... 06 11 2018 10 12 2018 fracture mechanics crack propagation generalized stress intensity factor bimaterial interface It is well known from linear elastic fracture mechanics that the stress field in the immediate vicinity of a crack is characterized by the stress intensity...

... with the fracture energy, Young’s modulus, and theoretical strength of material. biological materials flaw tolerance fracture mechanics viscoelasticity loading rate It has been well established that micro- and nano-structured materials can exhibit drastically different properties compared...

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... solutions, which demonstrate several interesting phenomena in the case when the solid incorporates a traction-free crack face and is subjected to uniform remote loading. In particular, we note that, in contrast to the classical result from linear elastic fracture mechanics, the stresses at the (sharp) crack...

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... composite laminate sheet is analyzed. The fracture process zone (or cohesive zone) at the corner is approximated as an equivalent sharp crack according to the linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The asymptotic singular stress and displacement fields surrounding the corner tip and the tip...

... elastic deformation finite element analysis fracture mechanics CZM bonded joint crack initiation local damage FRP analytical solution Fracture studies are usually carried out under several idealized conditions, as in the case of linear elastic fracture mechanics or the case of small...

...Xiaohong Chen A nonlinear field theory of fracture mechanics is developed for crack propagation in paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials from the global energy balance equation and the non-negative global dissipation requirement. The crack-front generalized J ̃ -integral is equivalent...

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... with the work of Professor Erdogan while collaborating some 25 years ago with Dr. Sailon Chatterjee at the Materials Sciences Corporation on fracture mechanics of layered anisotropic materials. “The techniques to which I was being introduced in the course of conducting research on defect criticality...