Plane Stress Fracture Toughness Testing of Freestanding Ultra‐Thin Nanocrystalline Gold Films on Water Surface

M Song, BS Ma, SJ Oh, TS Kim - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture toughness, which is the resistance of a material to crack propagation, is a critical
material property for ensuring the mechanical reliability of damage‐tolerant design …

Mode I crack growth in paper exhibits three stages of strain evolution in reaching steady-state

SA Paluskiewicz, CL Muhlstein - Theoretical and Applied Fracture …, 2022 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of wood fiber-based, commercial papers and metal foils are
qualitatively similar, and their plane stress, Mode I crack growth resistances have not been …

Steady-state crack growth in heterogeneous fiber network thin sheets

YJ Na, CL Muhlstein - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
Commercial copy paper is a thin sheet material that has orthotropic constitutive behavior
reminiscent of Al foils. Similar to Al foils, mode I crack tips in paper developed quasistatic …

[HTML][HTML] The development of zones of active plasticity during mode I steady-state crack growth in thin aluminum sheets

SS Javaid, WR Lanning, CL Muhlstein - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
Cracks grow in millimeter-scale, ductile metal sheets when a transverse neck fracture
process zone fails by microvoid coalescence. Here we showed that the crack growth …