Fracture

MAR 01, 1966

A solid body fractures not under a critical threshold tension, as once thought, but according to the complex interaction of a number of parameters. Among these parameters are the composition of the body, its temperature—and time. The physics of fracture was discussed at a recent international conference held in Sendai, Japan.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048102

C. C. Hsiao

ANALYSIS OF THE BREAKING STRENGTH of a solid body was based, in the remote past, on the belief that the body would break instantly under a critical threshold tensile force. Below that threshold, it was thought, the body would last without failure for a long time, if not indefinitely.

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More about the Authors

C. C. Hsiao. University of Minnesota.