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The decrease in the strength of glass under load results from reaction of the glass with water in the surrounding atmosphere. Hillig and Charles have proposed a model to explain the static fatigue of glass in which this reaction is enhanced by the concentration of stress at crack tips in the glass. This stress-enhanced corrosion leads to a sharpening of the crack tip, a still higher stress there, and ultimately failure when the theoretical cohesive stress of the glass is reached. This theory can explain some experimental results on delayed failure in glass but other results, such as the effect of surface treatment on delayed failure, are inconsistent with the theory.
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Doremus, R.H. (1974). Static Fatigue in Glass. In: Bishay, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Science and Technology of Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4538-1_14
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