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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.
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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More about the authors

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..

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