While performing notch impact tests, a material specimen is tested under impact loading in the form of an elongated building block - single-sided, notched and typically tempered. The unnotched rear ...

The Izod impact test fixes one end of a notched specimen in a cantilever position by means of a vice. A striker on the arm of a pendulum or similar energy carrier then strikes the specimen. The energy ...

The impact response of composite materials was of only minor interest prior to the introduction of carbon fiber in the mid-1960s. Before that time, the composites in use were primarily reinforced with ...