Close-up on cracks

Citation:

Jay Fineberg. 2003. “Close-Up On Cracks”. Nature, 426, Pp. 131–132. doi:10.1038/426131a.

Abstract:

How do things break? The fracture of materials is part of our everyday experience, and yet the process is not well understood. A study of crack propagation at microscopic scales shows the devil in the details.
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