Steady-state flow experiments to visualise the stress field and potential crack trajectories in 2D elastic-brittle cracked media in uniaxial compression

International Journal of Fracture

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 349-357

  Küntz, Michel ^a,b   Lavallée, Paul ^b   Mareschal, Jean Claude ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Crack induced perturbations; Cracks interactions; Elasticity; Hele Shaw cell; Steady state flow; Stress field

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; ELASTICITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STEADY FLOW; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CRACK-INDUCED PERTURBATIONS; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FLOW ANALYSIS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 17744408707     PISSN: 03769429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007537222483     Document Type: Article

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