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POLYMERS
Volume 13, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13173017
Keywords
VO-notch; PMMA; mode I loading; generalized maximum tangential stress; higher-order terms; crack initiation angle; fracture strength
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This paper presents experimental and theoretical investigations on the fracture initiation angle and fracture strength in VO-notched PMMA specimens under mode I loading conditions. The study found that crack propagation does not necessarily occur along the notch bisector line, and predictions using the GMTS criterion showed satisfactory consistency with experimental results.
This paper gathers experimental and theoretical investigations about both the geometry-dependent fracture initiation angle and the fracture strength in VO-notched polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) specimens under mode I loading conditions. The numerical analyses revealed that despite the application of pure mode I loading on the geometrically symmetric VO-notched samples, the maximum tangential stress occurs at two points symmetrically placed on either side of the notch bisector line. The experimental tests performed on some specimens showed that a crack does not necessarily propagate along the notch bisector line. Stress-based theoretical studies were then carried out to justify the experimental findings. The conventional maximum tangential stress (MTS) criterion gave weak predictions of the fracture. Therefore, the predictions were checked with the generalized MTS (GMTS) criterion by taking into consideration the higher-order stress terms. It was demonstrated that the GMTS criterion predictions have satisfactory consistency with the experimental results of the crack initiation angle and the fracture strength.
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