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In this chapter, the main concepts of fracture mechanics for isotropic and piezoelectric materials with special focus on the fracture criteria for such materials are reviewed.

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Govorukha, V., Kamlah, M., Loboda, V., Lapusta, Y. (2017). Basic Concepts of Fracture Mechanics. In: Fracture Mechanics of Piezoelectric Solids with Interface Cracks. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 83. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53553-1_3

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