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Engineering Materials

In modern materials science, how to accurately determine the fracture behaviour of engineering materials has been a longstanding problem. Nowadays, the most widely used approach is linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) analysis, which defines the fracture toughness in terms of the stress-intensity factor, K, or the strain-energy release rate, G. Accordingly, standard measurement methods have been developed for polymers, which were initially applied to metals. In practice, however, it remains a challenging task to determine the fracture toughness of tough polymers by using the existing standard methods, especially when there is an accompanying low yield stress. Such a combination leads to both crack growth and crack blunting which are difficult to separate. In addition it is impractical to apply the methods for polymeric thin films/paints or micro fabricated materials, owing to the stringent requirements for the shape and/or size of specimens. [Chang L, Wang HJ (2012) Cutting Tests: A New Method to Determine the Fracture Toughness of Polymeric Materials].
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