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Crack opening profiles and crack tip opening displacement (CTOD) in single edge notch bend (SE(B)) specimens were investigated by the silicone rubber replication of loaded crack tips. Their measurements revealed that CTOD in BS7448 overestimated the actual CTOD for low yield-to-tensile ratio steel, and motivated to investigate a new CTOD calculation method, considering the variation of crack tip blunting...