Everything about Griffith

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GriffithA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The “pure-shear” fracture test for viscoelastic elastomers and its revelation on Griffith fractureInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PelhamThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: LXXV. The moving griffith crackCited 861 times
5. Go sideways: MitchellA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Black RockA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• LXXV. The moving griffith crack

  Elizabeth H. Yoffe · 1951 · The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 861 citations

• The opening of a Griffith crack under internal pressure

  I. N. Sneddon, H. A. Elliot · 1946 · Quarterly of Applied Mathematics · 326 citations

• Thermodynamics of the quasi-static growth of Griffith cracks

  J.R. Rice · 1978 · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 248 citations

• Griffith Criterion for Brittle Fracture in Graphene

  Hanqing Yin, H. Jerry Qi, Feifei Fan · 2015 · Nano Letters · 215 citations

• Some kinetic considerations of the Griffith criterion for fracture—I Equations of motion at constant force

  J Berry · 1960 · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 214 citations

• A theoretical and experimental evaluation of the Griffith theory of brittle fracture

  E.Z. Lajtai · 1971 · Tectonophysics · 194 citations

• A comparison of the fracture criteria of griffith and barenblatt

  J.R. Willis · 1967 · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 177 citations

• An extension of the Griffith theory of fracture to rocks

  W. F. Brace · 1960 · Journal of Geophysical Research · 163 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The “pure-shear” fracture test for viscoelastic elastomers and its revelation on Griffith fracture

  Bhavesh Shrimali, Oscar Lopez-Pamies · 2023 · Extreme Mechanics Letters · 44 citations

• A variational formulation of Griffith phase-field fracture with material strength

  C. J. Larsen, J. E. Dolbow, O. Lopez-Pamies · 2024 · International Journal of Fracture · 30 citations

• Griffith-based analysis of crack initiation location in a Brazilian test

  Yousef Navidtehrani, Covadonga Betegón, Robert W. Zimmerman · 2022 · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 30 citations

• A mechanistic evaluation relating microstructural morphology to a modified Mohr-Griffith compression-shear constitutive model for 3D printed concrete

  Marchant van den Heever, Anton du Plessis, Frederick Bester · 2022 · Construction and Building Materials · 25 citations

• Correction of dynamic Brazilian disc tensile strength of rocks under preloading conditions considering the overload phenomenon and invoking the Griffith criterion

  Kaiwen Xia, Yuchao Yu, Bangbiao Wu · 2023 · Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering · 25 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PelhamEdward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828
• D.W. GriffithBarry, Iris · 1940
• D.W. Griffith, American film masterBarry, Iris · 1940
• Adventures with D.W. GriffithKarl Brown · 1973
• Lost at SeaA. A. Hoehling · 1984
• Thinking in PicturesJoyce E. Jesionowski · 1987
• Aunt Bee's Delightful DessertsKen Beck, Jim Clark · 1996
• The Andy Griffith show bookKen Beck · 1985

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