The intimate relationship between cavitation and fracture

Nearly three decades ago, the field of mechanics was cautioned of the obscure nature of cavitation processes in soft materials [A. Gent, Cavitation in rubber: a cautionary tale, Rubber Chem. Technol., 1990, 63, 49–53]. Since then, the debate on the mechanisms that drive this failure process is ongoi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raayai Ardakani, Shabnam, Earl, Darla, Cohen, Tal
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124396