Abstract
A CONFERENCE on "The Fracture of Solids" was held by the British Rheologists' Club on October 29, Prof. N. F. Mott, recently elected president of the Club, opened the conference by pointing out that, quite apart from its practical importance, fracture was the most interesting property of solids to the theoreticians because it is the least understood property, no progress having been made beyond the Griffith crack-theory of 1924. It is not known how cracks exist nor what causes them ; experimental work has made clear what happens during fracture, but not how it occurs.
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THRING, M. Fracture of Solids. Nature 163, 376–378 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163376a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163376a0
