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One hundred years of toughness

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

The year 2021 marks the centennial of the publication of paper, The Phenomena of Rupture and Flow in Solids, by Griffith. To fracture or to flow, that is the question. The question has been asked and answered in so many ways, which are recounted and celebrated in this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo/status/1290570290657996800