Tunneling radial cracks in layered structures from contact loading

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2526-2537

  Chai, Herzl ^a   Ravichandran, Guruswami ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass; Indentation; Multilayer; Radial cracks; Tunneling cracks

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COMPLIANT SUBSTRATES; CONCENTRATED LOADING; CONTACT LOADING; CRACK ARREST; CRACK LENGTH; CRACK TUNNELING; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; GEOMETRIC VARIABLES; GLASS LAYERS; GLASS/EPOXY; HARD LAYERS; IMPLICIT FUNCTION; INDENTATION LOAD; LAYERED STRUCTURES; POWER LAW RELATION; RADIAL CRACKS; RADIAL DIRECTION; STRESS FIELD; THIN INTERLAYERS; TRANSVERSE CRACK; TUNNELING CRACKS;

COMPOSITE FILMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GLASS; LAMINATES; MULTILAYERS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); WIND TUNNELS;

CRACKS;

EID: 70349738077     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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