Disorder and Fracture edited by J.C. Charmet, E. Guyon, Stéphane Roux.
Fracture, and particularly brittle fracture, is a good example of an instability. For a homogeneous solid, subjected to a uniform stress field, a crack may appear anywhere in the structure once the threshold stress is reached. However, once a crack has been nucleated in some place, further damage in...
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