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Fracture propagation in a boron-aluminum composite

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1. Application of the linear mechanics of fracturing to composites of the boron-aluminum type is justified, since it has proven possible to determine in an experiment the value of the fracture strength which characterizes the resistance of the material to fracture.

2. The fracture strength of boron-aluminum turns out to be higher than the same characteristic of the matrix material. Boron-aluminum is a material with a high resistance to fracture, whose surface is normal to the direction of the fibers. The fracture work of boron-aluminum with a fiber content of 50% is approximately three times higher than the fracture work of the unreinforced matrix.

3. At present there is no computational model of a composite which would permit reliably estimating the value of the fracture strength and optimizing a composite for this characteristic. Such a model should intrinsically take account of the statistical characteristics of a fiber.

4. The data obtained can also be interpreted as confirmation of the existence of a scaling dependence of the strength of a composite in the case of supercritical reinforcement.

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Institute of Solid-Body Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1010–1017, November–December, 1976.

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Mileiko, S.T., Sorokin, N.M. & Tsirlin, A.M. Fracture propagation in a boron-aluminum composite. Polymer Mechanics 12, 882–889 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856486

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