Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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771055 | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2009 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Mechanical fracture properties of specimens taken from refractory materials of different brittleness are described using the wedge splitting method according to Tschegg in uniaxial and biaxial load cases. Notch-tensile strength, fracture energy and the characteristic length were determined. Fracture energy under a uniaxial load is more or less the same for all materials; if a load becomes biaxial, values fall to approx. 70% in materials with reduced brittleness and to 40% in brittle materials, compared to uniaxial values. The sensitivity against crack propagation (lch) changes insignificantly under both uniaxial and biaxial loading of brittle and brittleness-reduced materials.
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Authors
E.K. Tschegg, K.T. Fendt, Ch. Manhart, H. Harmuth,