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thumb|Ductile failure of a metallic specimen strained axially

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  • Strength
  • Types
  • Ductile
  • Characteristics
  • Testing
  • Ceramics and inorganic glasses
  • Fiber bundles
  • Disasters
  • Computational fracture mechanics
  • The finite element method
  • The boundary integral equation method
  • Traditional methods in computational fracture mechanics
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Ductile failure of a metallic specimen strained axially

Fracture is the cracking or breaking into pieces of an object or material under the action of stress. The science of fracture is a field of study in physics and engineering.

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