A Combined Microbeam and Phase-Field Approach to Identify the Toughness and Ultimate Strength of Amorphous Silica

Gustavo Alberto Rosales-Sosa, Gergely Molnar, Yoshinari Kato +7

This work presents a new approach to evaluating the toughness, described by the critical energy release rate ($G_c$), and ultimate tensile strength (${\sigma }_c$) of amorphous silica (SiO…