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In this research, the fracture behavior of brittle specimens weakened by V-shaped notches with end holes (VO-notches) is studied. First, an experimental investigation is conducted to evaluate the effect of VO-notches on fracture behavior. To this end, VO-notched samples of PMMA are made and exposed to pure opening mode loading, pure tearing mode loading, and some combinations of these two loading types. As part of this study, samples with end-hole radii of 1, 2, and 4 mm are prepared to determine the effect of the notch end-hole size on the fracture resistance. Second, two well-known stress-based criteria, namely the maximum tangential stress (MTS) criterion and the mean stress (MS) criterion, are developed for VO-shaped notches subjected to mixed-mode I/III loading, also determining the associated fracture limit curves. A comparison between the theoretical and the experimental critical conditions indicates that the resulting VO-MTS and VO-MS criteria predict the fracture resistance of VO-notched samples with about 92% and 90% accuracy, respectively, confirming their capacity to estimate fracture conditions.

VO-Notches Subjected to Tension–Torsion Loading: Experimental and Theoretical Fracture Study on Polymeric Samples