ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on crack initiation under high rates of loading and rapid
crack propagation and arrest of such cracks. The information about dynamic frac-
ture in fracture mechanics literature is relatively scarce because dynamic fracture
is analytically more difficult to analyze and experimentally very challenging to
study. Nonetheless, there are many practical applications where the knowledge
of dynamic fracture is needed and as such a brief discussion is included in this
book.
