Determining fracture toughness from cutting tests on polymers

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2711-2730

  Patel, Y ^a   Blackman, B R K ^a   Williams, J G ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Cutting; Fracture toughness; Friction; Shear

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; CHIP THICKNESS; CUTTING ANALYSIS; CUTTING TEST; CUTTING-DIRECTION; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; HIGH TOUGHNESS; LOW YIELD STRESS; RAKE ANGLE; SHEAR-PLANE ANGLE; STANDARD TESTS; TOOL RAKE ANGLE; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; VISCO-ELASTIC; WORK HARDENING; YIELD STRENGTH;

ADHESION; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CUTTING TOOLS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRICTION; POLYMERS; STRAIN HARDENING; STRESSES; YIELD STRESS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 70449646458     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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