Project 2 - Reports

CE597: Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics (Instructor: P. Zavattieri)

Project #2: Pictures of the teams

One of the team preparing a fracture experiment

Tensile fracture test on ductile steel

Students watching one of the fracture tests

Crack on a tensile specimen

Adhesivelly bonded double cantilever beam

Arcan fixture for mixed mode I/II studies designed and manufactured by one of the teams

Mode I fracture test on Aluminum

Mixed mode I/II fracture test on Aluminum

Mixed mode I/II fracture test on Aluminum (close-up)

One of the teams preparing a 3 point bend tests on a pre-cracked concrete beam

3 point bending setup on a pre-cracked concrete beam

Team setting up a 3 point bending experiment

Mode I crack propagation in a 3 point bending experiment in a LWA concrete beam

End of a 3 point bending experiment

Student holding a broken sample for further studies

Mode I failure in a fiber reinforced concrete beam