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Tewksbury lecture: Control and application of environment-sensitive fracture processes

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This paper is concerned with the possibility of influencing the effects of chemically active environments on fracture processes in some controlled and predictable manner, such that their potentially detrimental effects on mechanical reliability are minimized, and their ability to facilitate fracture is utilized when this is desirable, as in materials removal processes. Phenomena such as stress-corrosion cracking, liquid metal embrittlement and chemomechanical effects are considered as they relate to the fracture behaviour of metals, ceramics, minerals, rocks, glasses, organic crystals and polymers.

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This paper is the text of the Third Tewksbury Lecture on Fracture, delivered 4 June 1974, at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Westwood, A.R.C. Tewksbury lecture: Control and application of environment-sensitive fracture processes. J Mater Sci 9, 1871–1895 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00541760

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