Experimental determination of the fracture toughness via microscratch tests: Application to polymers, ceramics, and metals

This article presents a novel microscratch technique for the determination of the fracture toughness of materials from scratch data. While acoustic emission and optical imaging devices provide quantitative evidence of fracture processes during scratch tests, the technique proposed here provides a qu...

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Main Authors: Akono, Ange-Therese (Contributor), Randall, Nicholas X. (Author), Ulm, Franz-Josef (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (Materials Research Society), 2013-03-26T20:52:59Z.
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