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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 62-69Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2015.07.011
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Local strain energy density; Theory of critical distances; Polyurethane materials
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- Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS - UEFISCDI [PN-II-PT-PCCA-2012-3-2-0068, 206/2012]
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Local strain energy density and theory of critical distances represent two recent approaches in assessing the brittle fracture of cracked and notched components. Experimental validation of these methods was mainly conducted on materials with brittle behaviour (ceramics and PMMA). In this paper the applicability of these methods to another class of plastic materials, i.e. rigid polyurethanes of different densities, was investigated. For this, two types of specimens, single edge U-notched and asymmetric semicircular bend cracked specimens, were experimentally investigated at room temperature and considered for theoretical predictions. Both criteria provide reasonable predictions for the fracture load. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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