| Abstract: | Failure Criteria for Polymers, Part II: Experimental Results . Using the fracture criteria, which have been analytically derived in the first part of this paper, experimental results from literature and from own experiments are compared with calculated fracture loci for thermoplastic materials, thermosets, and glassfibre-reinforced plastics. It can be shown that the change of dimension of a plastic specimen under load is simulating a higher compressive strength in comparison to the tensile strength (m > 1). Different methods are indicated for evaluating biaxial loading tests. A comparison between the results theoretically and experimentally found marks the parabolic fracture criterion to be suitable. Resins reinforced with chopped strand mats satisfy the maximum stress theory. The fracture behavior of orthotropic materials is accurately described by the fracture criterion of Tsai and Wu and Goldenblat and Kopnov. If normal stresses act parallel to the axis of orthotropy, the fracture behavior of orthogonal isotropic materials can be calculated acc. to the maximum stress theory. |
