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(a) (b)
(c)
FIGURE 1.13 Edge-cracked plates subject to a remote tensile stress: (a) edge crack in a wide elastic plate,
(b) edge crack in a finite width elastic plate, and (c) edge crack with a plastic zone at the crack tip.