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Fracture Toughness of Syntactic Composites

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Fracture toughness of syntactic composites with various degrees of filling with hollow glass microspheres is studied. It is shown that the “area method” can be employed for calculation of the crack resistance of syntactic composites.

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Baikov, A.V., Korokhin, R.A. & Solodilov, V.I. Fracture Toughness of Syntactic Composites. Polym. Sci. Ser. D 14, 237–240 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995421221020040

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