Brittle fracture of notched components has been widely investigated in recent decades both
experimentally and theoretically. This is because of designers' concern about catastrophic …

Shearing fracture behaviors of nickel coated multiwall carbon nanotubes (Ni-MWCNTs)
reinforced sintered silver were investigated based on end-notched flexure (ENF) test in this …

The present paper reports some experimental, theoretical and numerical results on brittle
fracture of notched components made of Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). First, fracture …

First, several rectangular thin sheets made of Al 7075-T6 and weakened by blunt V-notches
were tested for mixed mode I/II fracture, and the load-carrying capacity and the fracture …

The main goal of the present research is to analyze tensile fracture in Al 7075-T6 thin plates
weakened by blunt V-notches. For this purpose, first, 27 fracture tests are carried out on …

A data-driven approach is developed to predict the fracture load of a notched component. To
do so, more than 1500 fracture tests (507 unique experimental data points) on mixed-mode …

The equivalent material concept, proposed originally by the first author for predicting tensile
load-carrying capacity of ductile metallic materials weakened by V-notches, was employed …

General consensus in the literature is that the fracturing behavior of nuclear graphite shows
a certain degree of nonlinearity due to the presence of a fracture process zone (FPZ) ahead …

The brittle fracture criterion, namely the strain energy density (SED) over a control volume,
which embraces the notch edge, is utilized in the present research to assess the …

The main goal of the present research is to check the suitability of the combined Equivalent
Material Concept-Averaged Strain Energy Density (ASED) failure criterion, called EMC …