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Strains and Stresses - The words "strain" and "stress" have specific meanings in engineering and science... http://www.brantacan.co.uk/stressprimer.htm
Fracture Toughness Testing - Ships and other aircraft are extremely complex engineering systems with many components. In the construction of such systems it is impossible to avoid the presence of cracks... http://www.aoe.vt.edu/aoe3054/manual/expt5
Crash Physics on Mythbusters http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/video-mythbusters-put-the-science-of-crashing-cars-to-the-testTensile Test and Strain-Stress Diagram - Strain-Stress diagram expresses a relationship between a load applied to a material and the deformation caused by it… | Continue…
The Royal Mail Ship Titanic: Did a Metallurgical Failure Cause a Night to Remember? Metallurgical analysis of steel taken from the hull of the Titanic's wreckage reveals that it had a high ductile-brittle transition temperature... http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9801/Felkins-9801.html
Cracking up - When force is applied a brittle or ductile behaviour may ensue... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6895/fig_tab/418285a_F1.html
Mechanical Properties of Metals - Materials are often subject to forces (loads) when they are used. Engineers calculate those forces in order to understand how materials deform… http://www.virginia.edu/bohr/mse209/chapter6.htm 
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