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The transition from subsonic to supersonic cracks

Chris Behn1, M Marder2

  • 1Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|February 26, 2015
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