How things break

Physics Today

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 24-29

  Marder, Michael ^a   Fineberg, Jay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTALS; DUCTILITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; STABILITY;

BRITTLE MATERIALS; CRACK DYNAMICS; DUCTILE MATERIALS; PLEXIGLASS; SCALING THEORY; SURFACE DAMAGE;

CRACKS;

EID: 0030242651     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881515     Document Type: Article

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