Fracture toughness testing is critical to assess material resistance. Discover how nanoindentation can help testing it.

The Efficient Engineer Understanding Material Strength, Ductility and Toughness Posted: January 6, 2025 | Last updated: January 6, 2025 Strength, ductility and toughness are three very important ...

Fracture toughness is a critical property of materials that indicates their ability to resist crack propagation under stress. Understanding and measuring fracture toughness is essential in various ...

This method facilitates characterisation of ductile to brittle fracture for ferritic steels. The book "Fracture Toughness of Engineering Materials - Estimation and Application" was written by Kim ...

Recently, a research team uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack front in bioinspired anisotropic heterogeneities, and developed an optimization design for toughness ...

In recent years, bioinspired heterogenity has gained significant attention for improving material toughness. But most studies on bioinspired heterogeneity assumed straight crack-front propagation ...

Small amounts of the mechanically interlocked polymer added to Ultem fibers increased the high-performance material's toughness. In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led ...