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The work expended in plastic flow at the tip of a crack, γp, has been evaluated for large grained, fully-dense polycrystalline MgO. It has then been compared with the value of the effective surface energy for fracture initiation, γi, measured on the same material. It is found that γp is the major contribution to γi.
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