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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FRACTURE
Volume 165, Issue 2, Pages 175-188Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10704-010-9476-7
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Fracture; Three-dimensional loading; Crack front fragmentation
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The initiation of crack growth under a combination of opening and anti-plane shearing mode loading is considered in this paper. It is shown that such cracks do not grow through a continuous evolution of the crack surface. Rather, an abrupt fragmentation or segmentation of the crack front is generated. Through experimental observations and a theoretical model, we postulate a relationship between the scale of the fragmentation and the mode mix.
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