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Fracture at Finite Temperature: a Statistical-Thermodynamic Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
Abstract
We discuss both theory and simulation of fracture of ideal and almost ideal crystals at finite temperature. We propose that a solid under stress is in a metastable state, and that the onset of fracture may be characterized as the nucleation of the (stable) broken phase from the (metastable) intact phase. The role of atomic-scale defects is also discussed.
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