Soft Materials, Brittle Materials and Fibre Reinforced Composites
摘要
This chapterSoft materials gives an overview of application of the Hopkinson bar to soft (i.e. low modulusModulus) and brittle materialsBrittle materials, as well as fibre reinforced compositesComposites. Each of these classes of material provides interesting testing challenges that must be addressed, in addition to the concepts described so far in the book, and which would not be faced when testing metals or strong engineering polymersPolymer.