Brittle fracture of U-notched graphite plates under mixed mode loading

Materials and Design

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 421-432

  Berto, F ^a   Lazzarin, P ^a   Marangon, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blunt notches; Brittle failure; Elasticity; Mixed mode

Indexed keywords

BLUNT NOTCH; BRITTLE FAILURES; CONTROL VOLUMES; DIFFERENT MODES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRAPHITE PLATES; MAXIMUM VALUES; MEAN STRAIN; MIXED MODE; MIXED-MODE LOADING; NOTCH RADII; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PRINCIPAL STRESS; STATIC STRENGTH; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TILT ANGLE; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH; V-SHAPED NOTCH;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; ELASTICITY; GRAPHITE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

LOADING;

EID: 84861913919     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.05.022     Document Type: Article

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