Comparison of the crack nucleation approach versus the crack growth approach

Stress and strain are two familiar terms to designers and that is why, in most rubber companies, surface tension strain, and strain energy density are the two terms most often used for the prediction of rubber failure. Tearing energy or crack growth approach, even thought it has been around since 19...

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Main Author: Zhang, Pin
Other Authors: Vahdati, Nader
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/5530
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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