Fatigue crack propagation in microcapsule-toughened epoxy

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The Potential of Microencapsulated Self-healing Materials for Microcracks Recovery in Self-healing Composite Systems: A Review (2016, background): “When an approaching microcrack ruptures the capsule, a reactive fluid is released and upon contact with the catalyst heals the crack and closes it.(21,22) If carefully evaluated with the presently available approaches and techniques, then microencapsulated healing materials present massive capabilit”
Retardation and repair of fatigue cracks in a microcapsule toughened epoxy composite – Part I: Manual infiltration (2005, background): “Abstract As a first step towards a new crack healing methodology for cyclic loading, this paper examines two promising crack-tip shielding mechanisms during fatigue of a microcapsule toughened epoxy.”
Retardation and repair of fatigue cracks in a microcapsule toughened epoxy composite—Part II: In situ self-healing (2005, methodology): “Crack lengths were measured optically and by a calibration based on specimen compliance [9,12].”
Cracks, microcracks and fracture in polymer structures: Formation, detection, autonomic repair (2016, background): “In [51] the Paris law constant for epoxy polymer was found to be strongly dependent on the concentration of liquid-filled urea-formaldehyde microcapsules, varying from 8.”