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The use of fatigue data and crack length measurements to predict the remaining service life of a stmcture under cyclic loading is possibly the most common application of fracture mechanics for performance prediction. In complex stmctures the growth of cracks is routinely monitored at intervals, and from data about crack growth rates and the applied loadings at that point in the stmcture, a decision is made about whether the stmcmre can continue to operate safely until the next scheduled inspection. 

For equilibrium systems with no contact hysteresis G = W, which is the classical Griffith criterion in fracture mechanics. For such a system, Eqs. 12 and 37 are the same. That is, the strain energy release rate is given by... 

The NACE publication Corrosion Fatigue gives a comprehensive account of all aspects of the subject, and in this work a review of the application of fracture mechanics for studying the phenomenon has been presented by McEvily and Wei , whilst Kitagawa has given a detailed account of crack propagation in unnotched steel specimens. This work should be consulted for details of testing and interpretation of results. 

In order to apply the crack nucleation approach, the mechanical state of the material must be quantified at each point by a suitable parameter. Traditional parameters have included, for example, the maximum principal stress or strain, or the strain energy density. Maximum principal strain and stress reflect that cracks in rubber often initiate on a plane normal to the loading direction. Strain energy density has sometimes been applied as a parameter for crack nucleation due to its connection to fracture mechanics for the case of edge-cracked strips under simple tension loading. ... 

Mars, W.V., Comparison of fatigue crack growth characterizations made at several labs, presented at Fracture Mechanics for Elastomers 50 Not Out, Proceedings of Anniversary Meeting Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, Hertford, United Kingdom, 2008. 

Brussat, T.R., Chiu, S.T. and Mostovoy, S. (1977). Fracture mechanics for structural adhesive bonds. AFML-TR-77-163, Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force base, Dayton, OH. 

Ductile polymers. For ductile polymers, the linear elastic fracture mechanics do not apply. The introduction of the J-integral by Rice(20) has facilitated the application of ductile fracture mechanics for this polymer system.(17) Without detailed discussion, the ductile fracture energy is used instead of in Eq. (5) ... 

Lac Lach, R., Kim, G. M., Michler, G. H., GreUmann, W., Albrecht, K. Indentation fracture mechanics for toughness assessment of PMMA/Si02 nanocomposites. Macromat. Mater. Eng. 

JA. DiCarlo, H.M. Yurt, and LB. Hurst, Fracture Mechanisms for SiC Fibers and SiC/SiC Composites Under Stress-Rupture Conditiotts at High Temperatures, Applied Mathematics and Canputation, 152, 473-481(2004). 

McMeeking, R.M. (2001) Towards a fracture mechanics for brittle piezoelectric and dielectric materials. 

A brief review of microfracture processes and the energy absorption mechanics of fiber reinforced composites is given by Miyajima et al [239]. Fiber pullout is considered to be the most important toughening mechanism. They describe an experimental technique to determine fiber pullout energy, using a 3-point bend specimen. From measurements of fundamental fracture parameters, fracture mechanisms for the fiber pullout processes of carbon fiber reinforced carbon composites are discussed. 

Fracture mechanics for brittle materials is basically derived from the theory presented by Griffith (1920). Initially it was proposed for an elliptical crack in an infinite elastic and homogeneous medium subjected to distant tensile forces and the conditions for crack propagation were formulated for that case. Later, the brittle fracture mechanics were developed for various situations in real structural elements, with non-negligible plastic deformations and with several complications necessary to account for heterogeneity of materials, time effects, etc. In that approach the crack s appearance and propagation is considered as a basic effect of loading and as phenomena directly related to final failure. 

In the situation described above, it is necessary either to verify that the non-elastic effects are small and negligible or try to consider them by appropriate modification of the formulae. For practical applications, it is useful to standardize the specimens and to compare only those with similar dimensions. It is also possible to use other parameters based mostly on experimental data in which the assumptions of an ideal elastic behaviour are not needed. All these ways of using the fracture mechanics for cement-based composites have been developed by several authors (cf. Section 10.2). 

Akita, H., Koide, H., Sohn, D., Tomon, M. (2001) A testing procedure for assessing the uniaxial tension of concrete, in ACl SP-201 Fracture Mechanics for Concrete Materials Testing and Applications, C. Vipulanandan, W.H. Gerstle, eds Farmington Hills, MI pp. 75—91. 

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