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Brittle Fracture
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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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