3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
A Guide to Fully Characterize the Fracture Properties of Cementitious Materials from Simple Experiments
Subhrangsu Saha, Bruce J. Moore, Ben Manaugh +2
Guided by recent advances in the understanding of nucleation and propagation of fracture in elastic brittle materials, this paper proposes a suite of three simple experiments that…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Breaking Four-Point and Three-Point Bending Tests
Subhrangsu Saha, Jeffery R. Roesler, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
Since their initial standardizations in the 1930s and 1950s, the so-called four-point and three-point bending tests on unnotched beams have been embraced by practitioners as two po…
cond-mat.other2024
A Griffith description of fracture for non-monotonic loading with application to fatigue
Subhrangsu Saha, John E. Dolbow, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
With the fundamental objective of establishing the universality of the Griffith energy competition to describe the growth of large cracks in solids \emph{not} just under monotonic…