Stress investigation on a cracked craze interacting with a nearby circular inclusion in polymer composites

• Main Authors: Zhang, Yan Mei, Zhang, W. G., Fan, M., Xiao, Zhong Min
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Craze; Crack
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83165; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In polymer composites, inclusions (fillers) are introduced into the glassy polymeric matrices in order to improve the toughness properties as the brittleness is one of the fatal drawbacks for glassy polymers. For the first time, in our current study, the stress analysis has been performed on the int...