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The paper presents a method to determine dynamic fracture toughness using a notched three-point bend specimen. With dynamic loading of a specimen there is a complex relation between the stress-intensity factor and the force applied to the specimen. This is due to effects of inertia, which have to be accounted for to evaluate a correct value of the stress-intensity factor. However, the stress-intensity factor is proportional to the load-point displacement if the fundamental mode of vibration is predominant in the specimen. The proportionality constant depends only on the geometry and stiffness of the specimen. In the present method we have measured the applied force and load-point displacement by a modified Hopkinson pressure bar, where two-point strain measurement has been used to evaluate force and displacement for times greater than the transit time for elastic waves in the Hopkinson bar. We have compared the method with the stress-intensity factor derived from strain measurement near the notch tip and good agreement was obtained. The method is well suited for high-temperature testing and results from fracture toughness tests of brittle materials at ambient and elevated temperatures are presented.
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Bacon, C., Färm, J. & Lataillade, J.L. Dynamic fracture toughness determined from load-point displacement. Experimental Mechanics 34, 217–223 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02319758
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