We report a brittle Mg-based bulk metallic glass which approaches the ideal brittle behavior. However, a dimple structure is observed at the fracture surface by high resolution scanning electron microscopy, indicating some type of "ductile" fracture mechanism in this very brittle glass. We also show, from the available data, a clear correlation between the fracture toughness and plastic process...

Data for fracture in human humeral cortical bone are re-analyzed to assess the validity for this material of linear-elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), which is the standard method of analyzing toughness and one basis for analyzing clinical data relating to bone quality. A nonlinear fracture model, which is based on representing the damage zone in the bone by a cohesive model, is calibrated agai...

Women's Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap: Inequalities from Multiple Global Perspectives. An article journal Atlantis ("Mis/classification: Identity-based Inequities in Canadian and Post-secondary Context" Open-themed), on Érudit.

Failure of adhesive bonded structures often occurs concurrent with the formation of a non-negligible fracture process zone in front of a macroscopic crack. For this reason, the analysis of damage and fracture is effectively carried out using the cohesive zone model (CZM). The crucial aspect of the CZM approach is the precise determination of the traction-separation relation. Yet it is usually d...

[1] The Mid-Atlantic Ridge around the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone is unique in that outcrops of lower crust and mantle rocks are extensive on both flanks of the axial valley walls over an unusually long distance along-axis, indicating a high ratio of tectonic to magmatic extension. On the basis of newly collected multibeam bathymetry, magnetic, and gravity data, we investigate crustal evolutio...

It is known for long time that the size of a structure has an important effect on its fracture stress. This phenomenon is called size effect and it seems that it can be attributed to the influence of a damaged zone which develops around the fracture area. Investigations have been made on size effect in shear fracture on two species of wood : Maritime Pine and Norway Spruce. The experimental fra...

The debonding behaviour of fibres strongly affects the properties of fibre-reinforced composites. In the literature, two different approaches to the fibre debonding problem have been developed. In strength-based approaches [1-4], interracial debonding is assumed to occur once an interfacial strength is reached. In fracture-based approaches [5-9], the debonded interfacial zone is regarded as a t...