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This chapter reviews recent advances in experimental studies on fracture mechanics of small materials on nanometer scales. In particular, experimental systems and some testing methods developed by the current authors are introduced for investigating the fracture behavior of interface in nanoscale multilayered components and low-dimensional single crystalline materials, and main experimental results are presented as well. The experimental studies discussed are: (1) crack initiation from the free edge of interface and its mechanical criterion, (2) modulation of the location of crack initiation and the mode mixity for interface cracking with different types of cantilever specimens, (3) evaluation of the effect of microscopic structure on the interface cracking by an inverted-T-shaped cantilever method, (4) creep crack initiation at an interface edge in nanoscale components, (5) fatigue fracture behavior of interface and the environmental effect, (6) novel resonant vibration based high-cycle fatigue method and the fatigue properties of nano-metals, and (7) evaluation of deformation and fracture properties of nanoscale single crystalline materials. From the obtained results, authors pointed out the applicability of conventional fracture mechanics in nanoscale components. Meanwhile, the main challenges and difficulties in experimental studies on the fracture behavior of nanoscale materials are demonstrated, and several future research topics are outlined.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers 25000012 and 15H02210).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto-daigaku-katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Yabin Yan, Takashi Sumigawa & Takayuki Kitamura

  2. Institute of Systems Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, China

    Yabin Yan

  3. Department of Astronautical Science and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

    Licheng Guo

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  1. Institute for Materials Testing, Materials Science and Strength of Materials, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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Yan, Y., Sumigawa, T., Guo, L., Kitamura, T. (2019). Fracture Nanomechanics. In: Schmauder, S., Chen, CS., Chawla, K., Chawla, N., Chen, W., Kagawa, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mechanics of Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6884-3_6

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