The thermodynamics of brittle fracture i
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S. A. F. Murrell; P. J. Digby
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Article
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1972
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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A calculation has been carried out of the changes in Gibbs free energy associated with the initiation of crack propagation in an isotropic, brittle solid of the Griffith type when the solid is subjected to a homogeneous, uniform but otherwise arbitrary triaxial system of stresses at infinity. The cr