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Topic III - Fracture


Introductory Overview

Fracture Intro
Fracture Intro
Griffith
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Overview of Fracture Toughness

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Bond Fracture and Surface Energy

Fracture Fracture
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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

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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

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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)

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Sub-Critical, also called Slow Crack Growth


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


.pdf file (accumulative)
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The Take Home Exam for Fracture is posted just below


Take Home Exam
Sollutions to the Take Home Exam
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