Model I cohesive zone models of different rank coals

The present work develops cohesive zone models (CZM), i.e. cohesion-separation laws, for mode I fractures in different rank coals, including weakly caking coals, gas coals, fat coals, meager-lean coals and anthracite, through disk-shaped compact tension tests. Firstly, the experiments show that with the coal rank rising, the critical crack separation displacements and the degrees of the nonlinearity of the softening function decline gradually....