Evaluation of the energy parameter J on rubber-like materials: Comparison between experimental and numerical results

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 919-933

  Ait Hocine, N ^a   Nait Abdelaziz, M ^a   Ghfiri, H ^a   Mesmacque, G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Fracture; J integral; Non linearity; Rubber

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TESTING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RUBBER;

ENERGY PARAMETER; J INTEGRAL; NONLINEARITY;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030383074     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(96)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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