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A concept of combined micro and macro fracture mechanics to brittle fracture

1974; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bf00035498

1573-2673

A. Toshimitsu Yokobori, Atsushi Kamei, S. Kounosu,

Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Real materials inevitably contain both stress concentrators as cracks or notches and as dislocations, that is, both macroscopic and microscopic one. From this viewpoint, a concept of combined micro and macro fracture mechanics is proposed for low-stress brittle fracture of steels.