COMBINED FAST FRACTURE MODELING AND EXPERIMENTATION

Personal computers (PCs) are frequently used in fracture laboratories for a host of tasks including the capture and processing of experiment al data. The aim of this research was to devise fracture models that c ould be hosted on a PC which are easy to reconfigure to simulate the f racture behaviour of different materials. A recently devised fracture PC model is presented which is configured to be used with the frozen t ongue experimental technique(1,2) to study the dynamic fast fracture p rocesses in medium density polyethylene (MDPE). Copyright (C) 1996 Els evier Science Ltd