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Large structures, the failure of which would cause considerable economic losses and, most likely, the loss of many human lives, have to be built fracture safe. Examples of such structures are ships, airplanes, bridges, pipelines, storage tanks, (nuclear reactor) pressure vessels and rocket motor casings. Although the number of failures is low relative to the number of structures in operation, the absolute number is still too high. The service failure of one single airplane or reactor vessel is already a major catastrophe. The financial losses due to failure of one storage tank, or due to the down time of a power plant after a major failure, are expressed in millions of dollars.
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Broek, D. (1982). Fracture of structures. In: Elementary engineering fracture mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4333-9_15
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