What is the fracture energy?

Alaa Hussein Al-Zuhairi @Alaa_Al-Zuhairi

02 February 2018 1 597 Report

Brittle materials such as concrete fail by cracking when they are subjected to tensile stress and by crushing when they are subjected to compression. Most of theories of failure applied to theses materials are depending of the value of fracture energy.

Mohannad H. Al-Sherrawi

Dear Dr. Alaa, you can find the defenition of fracture energy in this article:

Determination of Fracture Energy from Size Effect and Brittleness Number

By: Zdenek P. Bazant and Phillip A. Pfeiffer

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