tearing
Textile Strength Testing
Textiles, yarn, thread, fabrics, wool, cotton, and other animal and plant-derived fibers are commonly tested to ensure product quality by assessing the performance of materials and making sure they are acceptable towards proper end-use. This blog post will cover certain mechanical testing methods to test fabric and go over the testing standards.
Full blog post, including the recommended equipment, can be found here.
Discussion of fracture paper #13 - Cohesive properties at ductile tearing
In this review of particularly readworthy papers in EFM, I have selected a paper about the tearing of large ductile plates, namely:
The 2nd Sandia Fracture Challenge is here!
update, 7/24/2014: The information packet ("SFC2-challenge-v5.ppt") is no longer attached to this post (iMechanica has a file size limit of 1 MB, so we can not attach the 6 MB file). IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE INFO PACKET, PLEASE E-MAIL ME, blboyce [at] sandia.gov and copy Dr. Sharlotte Kramer, slkrame [at] sandia.gov. If you have an older version of the information packet, please also e-mail for the newest (v5) info packet.
We intend to send the shear calibration data to all those whose e-mail address I have by August 1st (sorry for the delay!).
Announcing the 2nd Sandia Fracture Challenge [click for more info]
UPDATE: The 2nd Sandia Fracture Challenge is now LIVE! See attached information packet.