Discussion: Strength-to-fracture scaling in scratching

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-28

  Akono, Ange Therese ^a,b   Ulm, Franz Josef ^b   Bažant, Zdeněk P ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ductile to brittle transition; Fracture mechanics; J Integral; Scratch tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897546096     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2014.02.025     Document Type: Note

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