8.2: Brittle Fracture
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Learning Objectives
- that materials break by cracking;
- what determines whether a material will crack or not;
- what determines whether cracking is catastrophic or more gradual;
- the concepts of the fracture energy, strain energy release rate, fracture toughness and stress intensity factor.