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SUMMARY:The fraught history of brittle fracture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gilles Francfort\, Flatiron Institute\n\nAttempting to rationalize how and predict when rupture occurs in a solid has been a frustrating exercise since the early 19th century post-Cauchy dawn of fracture mechanics. I will attempt to briefly retrace that history with an emphasis on its equally frustrating interplay with the available …

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URL:https://www.math.utah.edu/research/colloquia/2025-10-02-gilles-francfort/
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