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This is an advanced text for higher degree materials science students and researchers concerned with the strength of highly brittle covalent-ionic solids, principally ceramics. It presents a unified continuum, microstructural and atomistic treatment of modern fracture mechanics. The underlying theme of the book is the Griffith energy-balance concept of crack propagation.Lawn, Brian is the author of 'Fracture of Brittle Solids', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521409728 and ISBN 0521409721.
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