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...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...

... heterogeneous materials (or quasibrittle fracture mechanics), the continuum strain is defined by homogenization. It is now proposed that, in damage mechanics, two different kinds of homogenization must be distinguished: Stiffness-based homogenization: So far, material homogenization has generally been...

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... 07 2020 15 07 2020 04 12 2020 adhesion fracture mechanics bioinspired fibrillar adhesives elasticity energy release rate and delamination micromechanics The presence of fibrillar structures has long been noted in bioinspired dry adhesion. Throughout nature, various...

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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...

... problem is investigated for the representative centrosymmetric structure formed by two constituent materials. 14 09 2009 24 03 2011 24 08 2011 composite material interfaces crack-edge stress field analysis finite element analysis fracture mechanics interaction integral...

... higher kinetic energies cause more severe crack branching after the crack extends into the second glass plate. 24 11 2010 24 05 2011 05 08 2011 05 08 2011 adhesives cracks fracture mechanics glass impact (mechanical) plates (structures) Glass has high potential...

... 2009 31 03 2010 31 03 2010 brittle fracture cracks elasticity fracture mechanics plates (structures) In this work, the occurrence of star-shaped cracks at thin plates under comprehensive (uniform) stretching was experimentally confirmed, and the exact closed-form analytic...

... 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...

... 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...

... of the theoretical large-size asymptotic power law is found to be −0.459 for series I and II, and −0.486 for series III. 29 10 2008 04 03 2009 01 10 2009 brittleness carbon fibre reinforced composites fracture mechanics joining materials laminates shear strength steel tensile testing...

... in the current study can be extended to multilinear cohesive laws, although only bilinear cohesive law is presented in this work as an example. 29 04 2008 04 11 2008 16 06 2009 crack-edge stress field analysis delamination elastic deformation finite element analysis fracture mechanics...

...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...

... rate, such as those frequently used in the engineering practice. 22 02 2007 15 09 2008 22 04 2009 brittleness elasticity fracture mechanics microcracks softening tensile strength cohesive zone model damage dissipation microcrack propagation brittle materials...

... intensity factors, K III , are derived and numerical results are provided. 23 02 2007 27 02 2007 21 08 2008 Chebyshev approximation crack-edge stress field analysis elastic constants elasticity fracture mechanics functionally graded materials integro-differential equations...