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Crack growth in viscoelastic solids has been studied by the energy balance approach [1, 2] and the specification of critical parameters [3–6] associated with rupture in the vicinity of the crack tip. Previous works, however, involved complicated manipulations and expressions that were solvable only by numerical means. Considered in this treatise is the fracture criterion of energy density proposed by Sih [7]. The obtained results agreed well with experiments and circumvent complex mathematics.
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Bukharin, O.A., Nikitin, L.V. (1992). Crack growth in rate sensitive solids. In: Mechanics and Physics of Energy Density. Engineering Application of Fracture Mechanics, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1954-9_9
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