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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 17-25Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2013.11.008
Keywords
CCNBD specimen; Pure mode I; Pure mode II; Rock; GMTS criterion; Statistical analysis
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Fracture toughness of a white marble is studied experimentally using several cracked chevron notched Brazilian disc (CCNBD) specimens under pure mode I and pure mode II loading. Even in the presence of natural scatters in the test data, it was observed that the average mode II fracture toughness K-IIc was considerably larger than that of mode I fracture toughness K-Ic such that the mean fracture toughness ratio (K-IIc/K-Ic) was about 2. Using the generalized maximum tangential stress theory, the obtained mode II test results were estimated in terms of mode I fracture toughness data. The enhanced K-IIc value in the CCNBD specimen could be related to the influence of very large negative T-stress value that exists in the mode II CCNBD specimens. The statistical analyses of test data were performed successfully to predict the Weibull parameters of mode II results in terms of mode I Weibull parameters. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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