Prediction of crack initiation at blunt notches and cavities – size effects

Size Effect in Blunt Fracture: Concrete, Rock, Metal

Zdeněk P. Bažant · Journal of Engineering Mechanics · 1984 · 1.7K citations

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Strength or toughness? A criterion for crack onset at a notch

Dominique Leguillon · European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids · 2002 · 882 citations

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The failure of brittle porous solids under compressive stress states

C. G. Sammis, Michael F. Ashby · Acta Metallurgica · 1986 · 567 citations

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Computation of Singular Solutions in Elliptic Problems and Elasticity.

Pierre Grisvard, Dominique Leguillon, É. Sanchez-Palencia · Mathematics of Computation · 1989 · 319 citations

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Failure criteria for brittle elastic materials

Zohar Yosibash, Arie Bussiba, Ilan Gilad · International Journal of Fracture · 2004 · 293 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +13