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Fracture

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Material failure and fracture are the final stages of deformation and all materials fail. Arguably, fracture is the central unsolved problem in mechanics of soft materials and materials in general. There are various conceptual approaches to fracture in the literature.

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    Griffith (1921) suggested a theory of the growth of pre-existing cracks based on the global energy balance. Such integral balance ignores the role of the strain and stress concentrations at the tip of the crack and, therefore, it is open to criticism—see Volokh and Trapper (2008).

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    We use asterisk \(*\) to designate physical quantities per unit mass rather than per unit volume.

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  1. Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Konstantin Volokh

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Volokh, K. (2019). Fracture. In: Mechanics of Soft Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8371-7_11

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