PSI - Issue 66

Carl H. Wolf et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 66 (2024) 26–37 10 Carl H. Wolf, Sebastian Henkel, Christian Düreth, Maik Gude and Horst Biermann / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2025) 000–000 (a) (b)

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Figure 8: Crack growth plots of (a,c,e) uniaxially loaded specimens and (b,d,f) both uniaxially loaded and biaxially loaded specimens for (a,b) the Mode I energy release rate  G I , (c,d) the Mode II energy release rate  G II and (e,f) equivalent energy release rate  G eq . (e) Comparison of the virtual clip results versus crack growth rate with the FE results versus crack growth rate.