Failure theories are used to predict when a material will fail due to static loading. They do this by comparing the stress state at a point with material properties that can be easily determined ...

Shocking new theory about static electricity. By Joseph Castro. June 29, 2011 / 2:57 PM EDT ... agrees that material is being transferred during static electricity, ...

BRITTLE MATERIAL Recall that one failure theory that is used for brittle material is the Mohr’s criterion. With this theory, the brittle material is assumed to fail in normal stress, and that the ...

Explaining how 2-D materials break at the atomic level Physicists found that to shed light on the cracking of MoS2, we must go beyond the theory used so far ...