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Well known experiments of projectile impacts on pre-notched plates have demonstrated a transition from brittle to ductile failure with increasing strain rate. At low rates cracks form at the notch tip and propagate at roughly 70° counter clockwise from the loading direction. At high rates shear bands form and propagate in a downward curving path. This occurs because of the formation of shear bands,...
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