Brittle material strength and fracture toughness estimation from four-point bending test

The failure stress under four-point bending cannot be considered as an intrinsic material property because of the well-known size effect of increasing maximum flexural stress with decreasing specimen size. In this work, four-point bending tests are analyzed with the coupled criterion for different s...

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Main Authors: Aurélien Doitrand, Ronan Henry, Sylvain Meille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INRIA 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
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Online Access:https://jtcam.episciences.org/6753/pdf