Talk:Fracture

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Wow, this has been a big month for this article. Good job, guys! Would someone care to mention transgranular vs. intergranular? I used to know this, but I've forgotten a lot and don't want to embarrass myself writing false information.--Joel 22:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)


I strongly feel against what Mbuehler had added laterly. apparently he/she was promoting his/her own work, not to introduce knowledge to the public.

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[edit] Info needed please

It's great that you list examples for each type of fracture, but thats not really explaning. Please revise this page. Thanks--Apple (talk) 08:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rupture

What is refered to here as "Ductile Fracture" is what I know as "Rupture." The topics are sufficiently different that I think a seperate rupture article should be started and the ductile fracture stuff moved there. --Yannick 01:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed —BenFrantzDale 05:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fracture in geology

Does fracturing in geology include information that isn't in this article? A lot of geological articles are linked here. -- Kjkolb 09:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I made a new article, Rock fracture, to address the specific context of fractures in geology. I'll try and re-direct geology related links there; and please, contribute to that article. +mwtoews 03:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different formula for critical stress

Hi there, I am looking at the formula for critical stress required for crack propogation in this article and it does not match what I have in my college text book.

I have not figured out how to use greek letters yet, but basically the formula I have is

(Critical Stress)=sqrt(2*(Modulus of elasticity)/(specific surface area)/(Pie*(half crack length)))

This formula is according to William D Callister Jr, in his book Materials Science and Engineering.

I actually like the formula given by wikipedia a little bit better because it includes the radius of the crack tip in the calculation, however I think that it might be appropriate to include this alternate formula which, eleminates the interatomic distance as well as the crack tip diameter as well so as to be a little bit more complete.

But this is my first time ever typing into wikipedia, so I was just wondering what all you other experts in material science think about this idea? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hobojaks (talk • contribs) 03:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC).


[edit] Need for Scanning Electron Microscopy Images

This article could be improved greatly by including Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM) images of the the fracture surface discussed in the paper.


[edit] PUT MORE CONTENT

I FEEL THAT THIS ARTICLE NEEDS MORE CONTENT. IT DOES NOT MEET MY STANDARDS. FOR EXAMPLE, TELL MORE ABOUT BONE FRACTURES.ItsJodo (talk) 04:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)