Brittle Fracture Modeling with a Surface Tension Excess Property

The classical theory of linear elastic fracture mechanics for a quasi-static crack in an infinite linear elastic body has two significant mathematical inconsistencies: it predicts unbounded crack-tip stresses and an elliptical crack opening profile. A new theory of fracture developed by Sendova and...

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Main Author: Ferguson, Lauren
Other Authors: Walton, Jay R
Format: Others
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148359