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The improvement of a material's fracture toughness has significant industrial applications. An example is the manufacture and maintenance of commercial gas containers made in the form of aluminium cylinders; a challenging design problem since they are susceptible to crack growth under a static pressure load (internal pressure). The manufacturing process of the neck of gas cylinders introduces small...
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