Abstract: | This note presents an analysis of the standard formulation of dynamic fracture mechanics problems. It is shown that this formulation does not correspond to the physics of such problems. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 3–9, June, 1999. |