Introductory Overview

Overview of Fracture Toughness

Bond Fracture and Surface Energy

Double Cantilever Beam Experiment

The notes from this class are bundled together in the following pdf and xls files
March 30 Notes (pdf)
March 30 xls file

Gibbs Free Energy: Work of Fracture

The notes from this class are bundled together in the following pdf and xls files
April 06 Notes (pdf)
April 06 xls file

The Significance of Crack Tip Opening Displacement

The notes from this class (to be posted later) are bundled together in the following files
.pdf file (accumulative)
xls file (accumulative)

Sub-Critical, also called Slow Crack Growth

The notes from this class (to be posted later) are bundled together in the following files

The Take Home Exam for Fracture is posted just below