fracture mechanics
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- mechanics of materials
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- Fracture mechanics
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- Category:Fracture mechanics
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- mechanical engineering
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Encyclopedic overview
The loads at a crack tip can be reduced to a combination of three independent stress intensity factors.
Solid mechanics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fracture mechanics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.