An alternative formulation of the Ritchie–Knott–Rice local fracture criterion

Plane strain deformation near a crack tip in a power-law hardening material

J. R. Rice, G. F. Rosengren · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1968 · 3.2K citations

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Singular behaviour at the end of a tensile crack in a hardening material

John W. Hutchinson · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1968 · 2.9K citations

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On the relationship between critical tensile stress and fracture toughness in mild steel

Robert O. Ritchie, J. F. Knott, J. R. Rice · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1973 · 1.5K citations

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A local criterion for cleavage fracture of a nuclear pressure vessel steel

F. M. Beremin, A. Pineau, F. Mudry et al. · Metallurgical Transactions A · 1983 · 1.2K citations

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Family of crack-tip fields characterized by a triaxiality parameter—I. Structure of fields

Noel P. O’Dowd, C.F. Shih · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1991 · 1.1K citations

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