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A simple model is proposed to explain transitions from crazing or fracture to shear yielding and vice-versa with increasing superposed pressure. The model is based on an estimate of the local tensile component of stress in the vicinity of a flaw, distinguishing between the different physical situations which arise depending on whether or not the pressurizing medium penetrates the flaw. The model explains naturally many observations of specimens failing in a brittle manner in nominally compressive stress fields.
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Duckett, R.A. Transitions between crazing, fracture and yield under hydrostatic pressure. J Mater Sci 15, 2471–2477 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00550749
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