The static and dynamic fracture of brittle materials

Contains published articles. === Bibliography: p. 131-138. === Experiments on the behaviour of brittle materials, particularly quartz, during the initial period of loading, at the onset of fracture and during the stage of rapid crack propagation, have been performed in order to gain an insight into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Basil Wolf
Other Authors: Ball, Anthony
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18010