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So far, we have studied growth of a crack only for the case when the load is applied normal to the crack and such that the crack propagates in a self-similar manner. However, often the loads are not aligned to the orientation of the crack. In such cases, the crack-tip stress field is no longer governed by a single opening-mode stress intensity factor K I but by a combination of the three stress intensity factors K I, K II, and K III. Moreover, the direction of crack initiation is not known a priori but depends on a failure criterion involving some combination of K I, K II, and K III. As a rule the crack follows a curved path.
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Gdoutos, E.E. (1993). Strain Energy Density Failure Criterion: Mixed-Mode Crack Growth. In: Fracture Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8158-5_7
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