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fracture
thumb|Ductile failure of a metallic specimen strained axially
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- Strength
- Types
- Ductile
- Characteristics
- Testing
- Ceramics and inorganic glasses
- Fiber bundles
- Disasters
- Computational fracture mechanics
- The finite element method
- The boundary integral equation method
- Traditional methods in computational fracture mechanics
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Ductile failure of a metallic specimen strained axially
Fracture is the cracking or breaking into pieces of an object or material under the action of stress. The science of fracture is a field of study in physics and engineering.