caa a22 4500 465741932 CHVBK 20180323111810.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00018124 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00018124 Scale invariance in brittle fracture and the dynamics of crack fusion [Elektronische Daten] [William Newman, Leon Knopoff] The brittle fracture of solids subject to extreme differential stress is assumed to be a consequence of the sequential fusion of smaller cracks into larger ones. Renormalization methods quantitatively describe the dynamics of the cascade of fusion events that culminates in failure, including the observed time-to-failure versus stress scaling law. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Newman William Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut Knopoff Leon Department of Physics, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut International Journal of Fracture Kluwer Academic Publishers 43/1(1990-05-01), 19-24 0376-9429 43:1<19 1990 43 10704 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018124 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018124 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Newman William Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Knopoff Leon Department of Physics, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Fracture Kluwer Academic Publishers 43/1(1990-05-01), 19-24 0376-9429 43:1<19 1990 43 10704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer