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The statistical issues governing the fragmentation of a body are not well in hand even to this day. Perhaps foremost in the list of objectives is the prediction of the distribution in the size of fragments resulting from a fragmentation event. One intriguing approach to this problem has simply been to investigate the statistically most random way of partitioning a given topology into a number of discrete entities. This approach to statistical fragmentation has been commonly identified as geometric fragmentation.
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Grady, D. (2006). Geometric Fragmentation Statistics. In: Fragmentation of Rings and Shells. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27145-1_2
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