An experiment on stress intensity factors for an interface crack between epoxy and aluminum plates
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Abstract
A teflon tape (0.07 mm thickness) is placed at the center of an edge of an epoxy plate. The plate is used to fabricate a mold, and epoxy resin is cast in the mold so as to produce a cracked epoxy plate. A tensile test is conducted so as to determine the fracture toughness value of the epoxy plate. Next, a mold is fabricated from an aluminum plate having a teflon tape placed along its edge, and epoxy resin is cast in the mold so as to produce an epoxy-aluminum composite weakened by an interface crack. Tensile testing reveals that the crack always propagates into the epoxy plate at an angle measured from the interface. The stress intensity factor for an interface crack is defined in a manner similar to that for a crack in a homogeneous material, and is obtained for several values of a/h, 2a being the crack length and 2h being the width of the epoxy-aluminum composite.
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OpenAlex topics: Mechanical Behavior of Composites · Fatigue and fracture mechanics · Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
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