Dynamic failure in solids

JAN 01, 1977

Interrelating microscopic and continuum approaches helps explain the mechanisms by which materials fracture: the growth and coalescence of microvoids, microcracks and shear instabilities.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3037367

Donald R. Curran

Lynn Seaman

Donald A. Shockey

All material failure is dynamic, almost by definition. It advances by rate processes that have threshold conditions and characteristic growth kinetics.

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Donald R. Curran, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif..

Lynn Seaman, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif..

Donald A. Shockey, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif..