Abstract: Unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites are often observed to fail in a longitudinal splitting mode in the fiber direction under far-field compressive loading with weak lateral confinement. An ...

Abstract: The present work examines the inertial effects on void growth in viscoplastic materials which have been largely neglected in analyses of dynamic crack growth and spallation phenomena using ...

Abstract: The mechanical behavior of a glass-ceramic matrix composite, SiC/CAS (calcium aluminosilicate reinforced with unidirectional SiC fibers), is studied. Results based on uniaxial tension experiments ...

Abstract: In this study, the effect of confining pressure on the crack growth behavior in a highly filled elastomer was investigated. The material under investigation contains 86% by weight of hard ...

Abstract: In Part I of this paper, the question of the extent of dominance of the mode I asymptotic elastodynamic crack-tip field (the K d I -field) was studied experimentally. Here, the results of ...

Abstract: Fracture experiments in a high-strength ductile steel (2.3Ni-1.3Cr-0.17C) were conducted under static and dynamic loading conditions in a three-point bend and a one-point bend configurations. A ...

Abstract: The objective of this study was to identify the microstructural mechanisms related to the high strength and ductile behavior of 2139-Al, and how dynamic conditions would affect the overall ...