Abstract
In a recent contribution, Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies (Extreme Mech Lett 58, 101944, 2023a) have shown that the Griffith criticality condition that governs crack growth in viscoelastic elastomers can be reduced—from its ordinary form involving a historically elusive loading-history-dependent critical tearing energy Tc —to a fundamental form that involves exclusively the intrinsic fracture energy Gc of the elastomer. The purpose of this paper is to make use of this fundamental form to explain one of the most telltale fracture tests for viscoelastic elastomers, the so-called delayed fracture test.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-38 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | International Journal of Fracture |
Volume | 242 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2023 |
Keywords
- Creep fracture
- Dissipative solids
- Elastomers
- Fracture nucleation
- Viscoelasticity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Modeling and Simulation
- Mechanics of Materials