Interlaminar fracture toughness: the long and winding road to standardization

✍ Scribed by T.Kevin O'Brien

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 498 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-8368
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-8368(97)00013-9

✦ Synopsis

The on-going efforts to achieve internationally accepted test standards for interlaminar fracture toughness over the past two decades will be reviewed. The status of current efforts to obtain an ISO standard for the Double Cantilever Beam test for mode I interlaminar fracture toughness will be highlighted. Current round robin activity underway to develop standards for mode II, mode III, and mixed-mode interlaminar fracture toughness will also be discussed. Differences in the interpretation of interlaboratory "round robin" test results will be highlighted. The influence of the different roles of standardization bodies in the US, Europe, and Japan on achieving international standards for interlaminar fracture toughness will be discussed. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.