In Materials Science, the Griffith Criterion is a criterion that describes the effect of plastic zone growth of a crack tip in relation to energy of the crack propagation process.

Plane Stress and Plane Strain Conditions

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Stress and strain in the 33, 23, and 13 directions are equal to zero.

Pertinant Equations

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  1. One
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Photos

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Common Toad


References

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References used: [1] [2]
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  1. ^ Professor Abokhatwa, Mohommad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 6, November 2010
  2. ^ Karimi M., Roarty, T., Kaplan T., “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of crack propagation in Ni with defects”, Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 14: 1409-20, 2006.
  3. ^ Swadener, J.G., Baskes M. I., Nastasi, M., “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Brittle Fracture in Silicon”, Physical Review Letters, 89(8) 085503-1-4, 2002.
  4. ^ Kikuchi H., Kalia R. V., Nakano A., Vashistha, P., Branicio, P.S., Shimojo, F., “Brittle dynamic fracture of crystalline cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) via molecular dynamics simulation”, Journal of applied physics, 98:103524, 2005.
  5. ^ Xu, Y. G., Liu G. R., Behdinan K., Fawaz, Z., “Stepwise-quilibrium and Adaptive Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Fracture Toughness of Single Crystals”, Journal of Intellegent Material Systems and Structures, 15:933939, 2004.