there is a critical material toughness that will trigger a brittle fracture. Figure 2 is a diagram that represents these essential considerations (toughness, defect, and load) imagined as a fracture ...

Accordingly, their macroscopic failure is often not initiated by plastic yielding, and almost always terminated by brittle fracture. Unlike conventional brittle glasses, metallic glasses are ...

The peer review panel investigating the girder fractures that closed the new Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco in 2018, requiring costly repairs, recommended changes to two key ...