Materials science: Mind the helical crack

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7285, 2010, Pages 42-43

  Buehler, Markus J ^a   Xu, Zhiping ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HELIUM;

CERAMICS; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVALENT BOND; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 77950853768     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/464042a     Document Type: Short Survey

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