Investigation of fracture resistance of natural rubber/clay nanocomposites by J-testing

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1527-1536

  Ramorino, G ^a   Agnelli, S ^a   De Santis, R ^a   Ricco T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Crack initiation; Crack tip opening displacement; J integral; Polymers

Indexed keywords

CRACK GROWTH; CRACK INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; CRACK TIP OPENING DISPLACEMENT; ELASTOMERIC MATRICES; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE MECHANICS APPROACH; FRACTURE PROCESS; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; J INTEGRAL; J-RESISTANCE CURVE; MATERIAL RESISTANCE; MELT BLENDING; ORGANOCLAY CONTENT; RATE DEPENDENT; RUBBER/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; SINGLE SPECIMEN;

BLENDING; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; ORGANOCLAY; POLYMERS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

FRACTURE TESTING;

EID: 77953616973     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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