Crack-Tip Opening as a Probe for Length-Scale Separation in Geometrically Nonlinear Solids

Raúl Lazo-Molina, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Mohit Pundir +2

Soft elastic solids are highly deformable materials where fracture is driven by the complex coupling of geometric and material nonlinearities. While geometric nonlinearity (GNL) ar…