Fracture toughness improvement due to crack deflection and crack trapping by elliptical voids or particles
Dražen Breščaković, O. Kolednik
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceFracture toughnessComposite materialVoid (composites)BrittlenessFracture mechanicsToughnessCrack growth resistance curveDeflection (physics)PerpendicularCrack closureStructural engineeringGeometryOpticsMathematicsPhysicsEngineeringNumerical methods in engineeringRock Mechanics and ModelingComposite Material Mechanics