Fracture toughness of foams with tetrakaidecahedral unit cells using finite element based micromechanics

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1277-1288

  Thiyagasundaram, Prasanna ^a,b   Wang, Junqiang ^a,c   Sankar, Bhavani V ^a   Arakere, Nagaraj K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Belcan Engineering Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular materials; Foams; Fracture toughness; Micromechanics; Tetrakaidecahedral unit cell

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; ASSUMED STRESS; CELLULAR MATERIAL; CRACK LENGTH; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENTS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS VALUES; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; LOCAL MODEL; MICRO-SCALES; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; MIXED MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MODE II; MODEL SIZE; OPEN-CELL FOAMS; ORTHOTROPIC MATERIALS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; REPEATING UNIT; TETRAKAIDECAHEDRAL UNIT CELL; TRANSLATIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; UNIT CELLS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CRACK TIPS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LIGAMENTS; MICROMECHANICS; STRESSES; STRUTS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 79953024994     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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