Authors: G Gao S Huang K Xia Z Li
Publish Date: 2014/03/05
Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-104
Abstract
Notched semicircular bend NSCB specimen has been successfully used in fracture tests of brittle materials As a suggested method for measuring the dynamic fracture toughness of rocks by the International Society for Rock Mechanics ISRM this method only measures the fracture initiation toughness of the sample with given external load and geometrical parameters Using the digital image correlation DIC method combined with ultrahigh speed photography the objective of this paper is to measure more fracture parameters of the NSCB specimen loaded by a split Hopkinson pressure bar SHPB system The displacement and strain fields during the fracture propagation process were determined using DIC method The location of the crack tip the fracture initiation toughness and the fracture propagation toughness were subsequently calculated using the deformation fields Compared with the traditional NSCB tests the optical method of DIC provides much more information on the fracture propagation processThis work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant 2010CB731503 and Grant 2013CB035904 K Xia’s research was partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC through the Discovery Grant 72031326 G Gao was financially supported by the China Scholarship Council No 201206010226 during her visit at the University of Toronto
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