Failure Time of Elastic Materials Submitted to a Constant Load

Authors:
R. Scorretti S. Santucci A. Guarino L. Vanel S. Ciliberto
Abstract:

We present a model of delayed fracture in elastic materials, which takes into account the non-reversibility of the system. The results show reasonable agreement both with existing experimental data and 2-D numerical simulations on mode-I fracture.