Abstract: Crack tunneling is a crack growth feature often seen in stable tearing crack growth tests on specimens made of ductile materials and containing through-thickness cracks with initially straight ...

Abstract: A novel experimental method using modified double cantilever beam specimens and a customized test frame are introduced to evaluate bond characteristics and toughness of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite overlays and ...

Abstract: A series of pressurization and tensile loading experiments on mouse carotid arteries is performed with deformation measurements acquired during each experiment using three-dimensional digital image ...