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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
4. Crack Growth Based on Energy Balance
Author : Emmanuel E. Gdoutos
Published in: Fracture Mechanics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
When a solid is fractured new surfaces are created in the medium in a thermodynamically irreversible manner. Material separation is caused by the rupture of atomic bonds due to high local stresses. The phenomenon of fracture may be approached from different points of view, depending on the scale of observation.