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Hertzian indentation was used to evaluate the local strength of glasses and to estimate residual stresses in strengthened glasses. It was found that initiation of Hertzian crack in glasses depends on the mean stress within a surface thickness related to material properties, but independent of the peak stress. The maximum mean stress for crack initiation was a constant and was defined as the local...
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