The Trousers Fracture Test for Viscoelastic Elastomers

Abstract Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies (2023, “The ‘Pure-Shear’ Fracture Test for Viscoelastic Elastomers Its Revelation on Griffth Fracture,” Extreme Mech. Lett., 58, p. 101944) have recently shown that the Griffith criticality condition governs crack growth in viscoelastic elastomers can be reduced to a fundamental form involves exclusively intrinsic fracture energy Gc of elastomer, and, so doing, they brought resolution complete description historically elusive notion critical tearing Tc. The purpose this article—which viewed as third installment series—is make use explain one most popular tests probing cracks elastomers, trousers test.