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When do atomic bonds break?
Why do cracks weaken a material?
Inglis and the crack tip stress idea
Can we calculate the energy changes?
What about tension?
Another way of expressing the energies
Another way of calculating the energies
Why bother if they are the same?
Coping with a scatter in strength
When does the sample fail completely?
Sub-critical crack growth and R-curves
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Books

A best overall book on cracking is that by Brian Lawn, Fracture of brittle solids, 1993, Cambridge University Press. You should also look at Molecular adhesion and its applications by Kevin Kendall. For the metalllurgist, the short monograph by Withers & Knott is exceptionally useful.

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