Fracture toughness testing is critical to assess material resistance. Discover how nanoindentation can help testing it.

Recently, a research team uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack front in bioinspired ...

Fracture toughness is a critical property of materials that indicates their ability to resist crack propagation under stress. Understanding and measuring fracture toughness is essential in various ...

Thus, proximity to crack initiation or unstable crack growth is assessed by calculating the crack driving force and comparing it with the material fracture toughness. This presents a major difficulty ...

Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition, but all contain networks of ...

The crack is first trapped by the tube ... the fibers increase toughness without adding extra material. Beyond improving fracture toughness, the researchers introduced a novel method to measure ...