In my May 2020 CW column, I introduced a new test method for measuring the fracture toughness within the facesheet-to-core interface region of sandwich composites. This proposed test method, referred ...
For 35 years, Zdeněk P Bažant relentlessly argued in the American Concrete Institute (ACI) for adopting his non-statistical energetic size effect law, based on quasibrittle fracture mechanics, for ACI ...
Researchers at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have made a discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of fracture mechanics. The team, led by Dr. Meng ...