In this project we studied experimentally how formation type disorder affects damage accumulation and final fracture pattern of a paper specimen. SC base paper specimens were dog bone shaped and silicon impregnated to enhance damage area visibility. Second image from left was used to calculate damage accumulation. The image on the farthest right is the one from which fracture path was determined.
Results show that no relation is to be found.
Earlier results in our project suggest that non-uniform structure lead to an effective concentration of strain and damage into low grammage areas of paper so that high grammage areas are left practically intact. We used the FFT method to calculate flock size distribution of a specimen and fracture path wavelength distribution of the same specimen. Results suggest that flock size is bigger for poor formation samples than for good formation samples. Fracture path roughness was also calculated from which it can be said that poor formation specimen have rougher fracture path than that from good formation specimen.