Physical Basis of Fracture Mechanics

Andrews, E.H. (September 1966) Fracture mechanics approach to corrosion stress cracking in plastics in Proceedings of the Conference on the Physical Basis of Yield and Fracture, Oxford, (ed. A.C. Strickland), Institute of Physics The Physical Society London, p. 127. 

On the other hand, fracture mechanics theory suggests the rupture may be due to weak intercrystalline affinity [18-21], agglomeration of amorphous regions [22-24], or some combination thereof [9,18], However, these broad mechanisms are unlikely to be mutually exclusive, and they lead to similar mathematical representations differing only in the rate-controlling step of many kinetic phenomena [6,10], Because the Zhurkov theory is more widely-accepted and has a well-developed basis in physics, it will be highlighted here. 

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