PSI - Issue 37

Koji Uenishi et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 37 (2022) 397–403 Uenishi and Nagasawa / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2022) 000 – 000

400

a

Tensile loading

bcccc

10 mm

0  s

120  s

Arrest of the secondary fracture

Main fracture (dynamic)

20  s

140  s

40  s

420  s

Resumed fracture (dynamic)

60  s

440  s

Secondary fracture (dynamic)

80  s

460  s

100  s

680  s

Fig. 2. Evolution of fractures, again all dynamic, with pre-existing inclined but parallel cracks under uniaxial tensile loading [unit: mm].