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The trousers fracture test for viscoelastic elastomers
Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies (2023) have recently shown that the Griffith
criticality condition that governs crack growth in viscoelastic elastomers can
be reduced to a fundamental form that involves exclusively the intrinsic
fracture energy of the elastomer and, in so doing, they have brought
resolution to the complete description of the historically elusive notion of
critical tearing energy . The purpose of this paper -- which can be viewed
as the third installment of the series started by Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies
(2023) -- is to make use of this fundamental form to explain one of the most
popular fracture tests for probing the growth of cracks in viscoelastic
elastomers, the trousers test