Tensile fracture of blunt V-notches in rectangular plates additively manufactured from Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene with different raster angles

In this research, the tensile fracture behavior of rectangular specimens made of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) containing double-edge blunt V-notches is evaluated. The specimens are printed using the fused deposition modeling (FDM) technique with five different raster angles and three different notch tip radii. To simplify the complex calculations related to the anisotropic behavior of these specimens, the Virtual Isotropic Material Concept (VIMC) is used in conjunction with three well-known linear elastic notch fracture mechanics (LENFM) criteria, i.e., the mean stress (MS), point stress (PS), and averaged strain energy density (ASED) criteria as well as the extended finite element method (XFEM). It is shown that all these fracture models can predict the load-bearing capacity of the 3D-printed notched specimens by acceptable accuracies, where the best predictions belong to the MS criterion with the critical distance obtained directly from the finite element method, and the least accurate predictions belong to the XFEM method.