(LEFM) A theory of fracture, applicable to brittle plastics (and other brittle materials), based on the assumption that the material is Hookean up to the point of fracture, with yielding restricted to a small volume near crack tips in the stressed material.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_6923
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