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 © 2011 Pablo D. Zavattieri | Site designed by P. Zavattieri |