On the location of fracture in brittle s
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K. P. L. Oh; I. Finnie
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Article
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1970
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The fracture produced in a slender rod, when a compressive stress pulse reflects from a free end as tension, has often been used to measure the tensile strength of brittle solids. In the present paper it is shown that the distribution of fracture location, when many such tests are made with a rectan