Use of the tapered double-cantilever beam geometry for fracture toughness measurements and its application to the quantification of self-healing

Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-186

  Brown, E N ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto nomic healing; Fracture toughness; Self healing; Tapered double cantilever beam; TDCB

Indexed keywords

AUTO-NOMIC HEALING; COMPACT TENSION; CRACK LENGTH; CRITICAL LOAD; DOUBLE-CANTILEVER BEAM; EXPERIMENTAL CALIBRATION; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SELF-HEALING; SINGLE-EDGE NOTCH; TDCB;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; CRACKS; EFFICIENCY; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; NANOCANTILEVERS; PILE FOUNDATIONS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 79956143374     PISSN: 03093247     EISSN: 20413130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309324710396018     Document Type: Article

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