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GRIFFITH1 extrapolated from his experiments the strength of glass to the order of 1,000 kp./mm.2, which is many times larger than the strength of the best steel. Orowan2 calculated from mechanical principles a value of the same order. More recent measurements, however, gave a much higher value for several silica-glass fibres, namely, 2,460 kp./mm.2 (ref. 3) ; therefore a calculation based on the atomic structure of glass seems to be important.
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NÁRAY-SZABÓ, I., LADIK, J. Strength of Silica Glass. Nature 188, 226–227 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188226a0
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