Abstract
Brittle fracture tests are carried out on Brazilian disk specimens containing a circular hole. The experimental campaign involves two different polymeric materials, Polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) and general-purpose Polystyrene (GPPS), respectively. Keeping fixed the disk diameter, five different hole sizes are tested for each material sample, thus allowing a full description of the related size effects. The recorded failure stresses are compared with theoretical predictions by the coupled Finite Fracture Mechanics criterion, which is originally implemented for the geometry under investigation by means of analytical relationships for the stress field and the stress intensity factor available in the Literature. The agreement is generally satisfactory, except from very small holes where some nonlinear effects influenced the failure mechanisms.
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