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A combined experimental and analytical study of rapid crack propagation in PMMA is described. The experiments employed wedge-loaded, double-cantilever-beam test specimens with blunt starting notches. For the analysis, a finite-difference procedure was used to solve the equations of motion of a beam-on-elastic-foundation model of the test specimen. In both experiment and analysis, crack propagation was found to occur at an essentially constant speed which was maintained until shortly before crack arrest. The magnitude of the observed speeds depended upon the initial bluntness (but only slightly on other dimensions of the specimen) and bore the same relation to the elastic-bar-wave speed Co as that observed in similar experiments on high-strength steel. The frequency of parabolic markings on the fracture surface was found to be related to the dynamic fracture toughness.
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Kanninen, M.F., Rosenfield, A.R., Hoagland, R.G. (1973). Fast Fracture in PMMA. In: Kausch, H.H., Hassell, J.A., Jaffee, R.I. (eds) Deformation and Fracture of High Polymers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1263-6_25
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