Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9711217 | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 2005 | 32 Pages |
Abstract
Much of the value of the new work resides in the new questions it has raised, which suggests profitable areas for research in the next few years and beyond. From the viewpoint of fundamental science, excitement is greatest in the struggle to probe the character of dynamic fracture at the atomic scale, using Newtonian or quantum mechanics as appropriate (a qualifier to be debated!). But lively interest is also directed towards modeling and experimentation at macroscales, including the geological, where the science of fracture is pulled at once by fundamental issues, such as the curious effects of friction, and the structural, where dynamic effects are essential to proper design or certification and even in manufacture.
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Authors
Brian N. Cox, Huajian Gao, Dietmar Gross, Daniel Rittel,