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Micromechanics of Fracture: Connecting Physics to Engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

A. Needleman  and
E. Van der Giessen
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This nursery rhyme is one of the oldest, most familiar, and shortest treatises on fracture mechanics in the literature. Nevertheless, it makes several important points: (1) fracture occurs in response to some driving force (for Humpty, a “great fall”), (2) fracture involves material separation, and (3) fracture is irreversible.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 26 , Issue 3: Materials Research by Means of Multiscale Computer Simulation , March 2001 , pp. 211 - 214
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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