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Dried materials can be considered as solids that are weakened by numerous cracks or voids. The fracture of such materials has frequently been observed to be a result of the growth and coalescence of microscopic voids due to drying induced stresses. In some cases a complete spallation may occur.
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Kowalski, S.J. (2003). Plasticity in drying. In: Thermomechanics of Drying Processes. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36405-4_7
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