Cracks travel more slowly than standard theory predicts, and finding out why may lead to safer materials and engineering. The answer appears to be in the way a speeding crack branches.
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Marder, M. Energetic developments in fracture. Nature 381, 275–276 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381275a0
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