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Energies of a Kinked Crack Line

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This article finds the energy of slightly kinked crack fronts in order to find the rate at which thermal fluctuations cause cracks to creep in three-dimensional settings.

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Marder, M. Energies of a Kinked Crack Line. Journal of Statistical Physics 93, 511–525 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOSS.0000033239.22129.c1

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