A theory of crack growth in viscoelastic
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R.M. Christensen; E.M. Wu
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Article
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1981
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The principle of the conservation of energy is used to derive a solution for the velocity of crack growth in viscoelastic materials. This work generalizes earlier work by the same method that yielded only asymptotic solutions for crack velocity.