Fracture Behaviors of Fracture Toughness Testing Specimen with Heterogeneity Along Crack Front

On the fracture toughness of ferroelectric ceramics with electric field applied parallel to the crack front

Mode I steady crack growth is analyzed to determine the toughening due to domain switching in ferroelectric ceramics with electric field applied parallel to the crack front. A multi-axial, electromechanically coupled, incremental constitutive theory is applied to model the material behavior of the ferroelectric ceramic. The constitutive law is then implemented within the finite element method t...

Fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth characteristics of nanotwinned copper

Recent studies have shown that nanotwinned copper (NT Cu) exhibits a combination of high strength and moderate ductility. However, most engineering and structural applications would also require materials to have superior fracture toughness and prolonged subcritical fatigue crack growth life. The current study investigates the effect of twin density on the crack initiation toughness and stable ...

Buoyancy-driven crack propagation: the limit of large fracture toughness

Fracture Toughness of Wood and Wood Composites during Crack Propagation

The mode I fracture toughness as a function of crack length of medium density fiberboard (MDF), particle board (PB), and Douglas-fir (DF) were all measured using a new energy-based method. PB and MDF are examples of composites that develop fiber bridging during crack propagation, which causes their toughness to increase with crack length. Longitudinal cracks in DF also displayed fiber bridging ...

Fracture toughness of graphene.

Perfect graphene is believed to be the strongest material. However, the useful strength of large-area graphene with engineering relevance is usually determined by its fracture toughness, rather than the intrinsic strength that governs a uniform breaking of atomic bonds in perfect graphene. To date, the fracture toughness of graphene has not been measured. Here we report an in situ tensile testi...