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Interface Fracture and Delaminations in Composite Materials

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In this chapter, the basic tenets of fracture mechanics are described. The first term of the asymptotic expression for the stress and displacement fields in the neighborhood of a crack tip is presented for a homogeneous, isotropic , linear elastic material. The concept of fracture modes and stress intensity factors are discussed. The energy approach through the Griffith energy is delineated. A presentation of the J-integral and its relationship to the Griffith energy and the stress intensity factors is given. A description of a fracture criterion through the fracture toughness is presented.

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Banks-Sills, L. (2018). Introduction. In: Interface Fracture and Delaminations in Composite Materials. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60327-8_1

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