The essential work of plane stress ductile fracture

Yielding of steel sheets containing slits

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Analysis of Stresses and Strains Near the End of a Crack Traversing a Plate

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On discontinuous plastic states, with special reference to localized necking in thin sheets

R. Hill · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1952 · 1.4K citations

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Local yielding and extension of a crack under plane stress

G. T. Hahn, A. R. Rosenfield · Acta Metallurgica · 1965 · 290 citations

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Crack-growth criteria and non-linear fracture mechanics

K. B. Broberg · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1971 · 267 citations

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