The Investigation of the Factors of the Fracture Toughness Based on the Compact Tension Specimen

Abstract

This article studies the fracture behavior of compact tension specimens under tensile loading. The test - numerical hybrid method is used to explore the effect of the location of the loading hole. And the size effect is also considered to analysis the reason of fracture behavior .The initial load for numerical simulation is based on the experimental data. In that case, the numerical simulation results can be used to study the effect of the location of the loading hole and also the size effect to the specimens.