The chipping process in a brittle material subjected to a uniformly applied edge load has been investigated. The present analysis extends earlier work by recognizing that as the chip is formed it may bend and change the loading at the crack tip. This geometry change introduces a nonlinear effect and has significant influence on the phenomenon. The nonlinear effect was demonstrated by incorporat...

A force balance condition to predict quasistatic crack paths in anisotropic brittle materials is derived from an analysis of diffuse interface continuum models that describe both short-scale failure and macroscopic linear elasticity. The path is uniquely determined by the directional anisotropy of the fracture energy, independent of details of the failure process. The derivation exploits the gr...

the new non-conventional cutting process by the use of thermal shock is a convenient procedure for cutting the brittle materials such as glasses and ceramics. this method is based on the application of localized thermal shock to brittle materials by the use of hot air jet, which induces thermal stresses at the tip of an existed pre-crack. due to the thermo-elastic behavior of materials, the pre...

A generally applicable framework for generating a nite element mesh that is based on the actual micro-structure of a material is developed. The procedure is applied to a microscopic image of a ceramic material. Special attention is paid to the modelling of the interfaces between adjoining grains. Plane strain and plane stress nite element calculations are performed. The observed e ective consta...

Assuming that the energy dissipation decreases inversely with distance from the crack tip, the increase in steady-state toughness of a transformation-toughened ceramic is estimated to be AJ = (AJ,/w) In (1 + w), where (i) AJo denotes the toughness increment which would be expected for a given zone height h , assuming full transformation throughout the zone, and (ii) w is a nondimensional parame...

Structural design with brittle materials requires that the stress level in the component correspond to a material survival probabi 1 i ty that exceeds the minimum survival probability permitted in that application. This can be achieved by developing failure models that fully account for the probability of fracture from defects within the material (including considerations of fracture statistics...

Peridynamic (PD) models of bodies without pre-cracks, based on a single fracture parameter (associated with the critical energy), produce different strengths when horizon sizes are used to simulate crack nucleation under quasi-static conditions. To maintain same strength and energy sizes, extra parameters have be introduced in failure model. Bilinear trilinear bond force-strain relationships be...