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We study crack kinking from a preexisting crack initiated at a notch root. This makes it necessary to evaluate the stress intensity factors at the tip of the initial crack, as a function of the ''stress intensity factor of the notch'' (the multiplicative coefficient of the singular stress field at the notch root in the absence of the crack), the length of the crack, the aperture angle of the notch...
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