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Determination of fracture mechanics behavior of polyethylene sheets

Polyethylene is a widely-used material in package industries. The fracture behavior of this material has not been studied in the plastic region in many years. In this thesis work, the J-Integral which is one material property used to represent the plastic material strength is calculated through the numerical analysis. To build a correct numerical model, the material behavior is summarized from previous uniaxial tensile test. The result from the fracture experiment for variable initial crack length is used to validate the reliability of the numerical model. The numerical analysis is done by the software ABAQUS which has the function to get the value of J-Integral directly. The final result contains the comparison between experiments and numerical analysis and the value of J-Integral at the crack initiation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-65706
Date January 2017
CreatorsJin, Min
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för maskinteknik (MT)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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