Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself
Materials fail by recurring rupture and shearing of interatomic bonds at microscopic, molecular scales, leading to disintegration of matter at macroscale and a loss of function. In this Colloquium, the state-of-the-art of investigations on failure mechanisms in materials are reviewed, in particular...
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American Physical Society
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58599 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659 |