The stability of a wedge crack under a u
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E. Smith
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Article
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1965
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The usual approach in finding the conditions for crack extensiol) is to determine the stationary values of the total energy of the system with respect to crack length; this necessitates the calculation of all the terms which combine to form the total energy. However, a very simple alternative approa