Crack Arrest

Crack Arrest is a fracture mechanics phenomenon in which a propagating crack in a structural material, particularly in bridge components, is halted or significantly slowed due to changes in stress intensity, material heterogeneity, or geometric constraints, thereby preventing catastrophic failure under damage-tolerant design principles.

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10.5K

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2017–2026

60

Authors

741

  1. MF
    M. F. Kanninen

    Battelle, United States

    9 publications · 1.3K citations

    9

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  2. SA
    Shuji Aihara

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    8 publications · 194 citations

    8

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  3. EG
    Elyas Ghafoori

    Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

    7 publications · 383 citations

    7

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  4. AR
    A. R. Rosenfield

    Battelle, United States

    7 publications · 261 citations

    7

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  5. MM
    Masoud Motavalli

    Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

    6 publications · 366 citations

    6

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  1. Engineering Fracture Mechanics

    23 publications · 519 citations

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  2. 14

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  3. Journal of the American Ceramic Society

    14 publications · 503 citations

    13

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  4. International Journal of Fracture

    13 publications · 1.9K citations

    12

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  5. International Journal of Fatigue

    8 publications · 278 citations

    8

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