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Institute of High Molecular Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 7, pp. 16–23, July, 1987.
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Dolotova, N.A., Aleshin, V.I., Zeiliger, V.A. et al. An experimental study of the interaction and merging of collinear cracks. Strength Mater 19, 886–896 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01523524
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