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Biaxial loading of pre-cracked cruciform testpieces has been preformed in a novel rig attached to a uniaxial testing machine. Fracture toughness R or δc of the ductile acrylonitride butadiene styrene (ABS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) determined by the Cotterell–Mai method is dependent on remote biaxiality. Least toughness is shown for equibiaxial tension; greatest for uniaxial tension. These monotonic fracture results may be modelled using void growth mechanics. Fatigue crack growth rates also depend on remote biaxiality. Paris/Walker representation of the data shows that the slopes n of log (da/dN) versus log ΔK do not change much, but the constant of proportionality C decreases as the tensile mean stress increases. There may be a connection between the biaxial-dependent C and R or δc. © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Atkins, A.G., Jeronimidis, G. & Arndt, S. Biaxial monotonic and fatigue fracture of some commercial ABS and PVC sheets. Journal of Materials Science 33, 4349–4356 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004428730407
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