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The world-wide demand for industrialization and shortage of resources have substan¬tially increased the need for more effective use of materials in the design of engineering structures. The technical community is faced with the responsibility of developing new and rational design procedures so that premature and/or unexpected failure can be minimized. The adoption of this seemingly obvious statement requires a philosophy and fracture criterion that have received much attention in fracture mechanics research. A major objective is to develop the capability of translating laboratory data to the design of full size structures in order to minimize cost by reducing full scale testing. It is precisely this knowledge that will ultimately determine the competitiveness of engineering products. In this respect, no technical community can afford to ignore or delay the development of fracture mechanics technology.
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Sih, G.C. (1984). Fracture mechanics of engineering structural components. In: Sih, G.C., de Oliveira Faria, L. (eds) Fracture Mechanics Methodology. Engineering Applications of Fracture Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6134-0_2
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