Can scratch tests give fracture toughness?

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 109, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-168

  Lin, Jeen Shang ^a   Zhou, Yaneng ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

FEM; Quasibrittle material; Scratch test; Size effect

Indexed keywords

CEMENT PASTE; DEPTH OF CUT; FEM ANALYSIS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; QUASIBRITTLE MATERIAL; SCRATCH TEST; SIZE EFFECT LAW; SIZE EFFECTS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 84883450742     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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