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Notched semi-circular bend (NSCB) specimen has been successfully used in fracture tests of brittle materials. As a suggested method for measuring the dynamic fracture toughness of rocks by the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM), this method only measures the fracture initiation toughness of the sample with given external load and geometrical parameters. Using the digital image correlation...
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