5 ABSTRACT: We have measured the fracture energy of 6 lithiated silicon thin-film electrodes as a function of lithium 7 concentration. To this end, we have constructed an electro8 chemical cell capable of testing multiple thin-film electrodes in 9 parallel. The stress in the electrodes is measured during 10 electrochemical cycling by the substrate curvature technique. 11 The electrodes are disc...

This study presents a probabilistic, 3-D framework to describe brittle fracture in structural components which incorporates weakest link statistics and a micromechanics model reflecting local damage of material. The Weibull stress (a,) emerges as a fracture parameter to define conditions leading to local material failure. This parameter is correlated with the macroscopic loading and used to des...

On the base of physical-and-mechanical modelling for cleavage microcrack behaviour a new local criterion for cleavage fracture is formulated. Cleavage fracture of pressure vessel steel under various loading history is investigated. It has been experimentally shown that for steels after static prestrain by tension and cyclic prestrain brittle fracture critical stress is described by increasing f...

Polyamide 6 (PA6) and short glass fiber (SGF) reinforced PA6 composites toughened with glycidylisobutyl oligomeric silsesquioxane (G-POSS) and 1.10-carbonyl-bis-caprolactam (CBC) were prepared by meltextrusion compounding process and then compounds were formed to 2 mm thick double edge notched tension samples (DENT) by injection moulding process. Fracture properties of composites were analyzed ...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable bone fragility disorder characterized by skeletal deformity and “brittle” bones. This fragility is believed to stem from a combination of bone mass deficiency and compromised bone material properties [1-3]. Poor bone quality poses major orthopaedic and rehabilitation challenges. Risk of fracture is a major consideration when prescribing activity restr...

In this work we derive by $\Gamma$ -convergence techniques a model for brittle fracture linearly elastic plates. Precisely, start from thin film with positive thickness $\rho$ and study the limit as tends to $0$ . The analysis is performed no priori restrictions on admissible displacements geometry of set. characterized Kirchhoff-Love type structure.

An analysis of inner cone cracks in brittle solids subject to cyclic indentation in liquid is presented. These inner cone cracks, so named because they form well within the maximum contact circle, are postulated to be driven by a hydraulic pumping mechanism. Unlike their more traditional outer cone crack counterparts, inner cones do not appear in monotonic loading or even cyclic loading in the ...

The paper presents a numerical implementation of a novel approximation scheme for Griffith’s theory of brittle fracture recently proposed in [1]. The total potential energy of a brittle body (including bulk and surface terms) is variationally approximated by a family of functionals, depending on a small penalty parameter ε. The (two-field) approximating functionals have as arguments the displac...