Abstract
The coupled Finite Fracture Mechanics (FFM) criterion is applied to investigate brittle fracture in rounded V-notched samples under mode I loading. The approach is based on the contemporaneous fulfilment of a stress requirement and the energy balance, the latter being implemented on the basis of a recently proposed analytical expression for the stress intensity factor. Results are presented in terms of the critical crack advance and the apparent generalized fracture toughness, i.e. the unknowns related to the system of two equations describing the FFM criterion. A validation of the theory is performed by employing varying root radius notched, as-quenched from 1200°C, AISI 4340 steel specimens fracture results as well as alumina and PMMA notched samples fracture results.
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