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There are some very broad distinctions that can usefully be made in classifying types of mechanical behavior and the approaches to their study. The first of these distinctions is between brittle and ductile behavior. We can define brittleness as the liability to gross fracturing without substantial permanent change of shape in response to loading beyond the elastic range. Conversely, ductility is the capacity for substantial permanent change of shape without gross fracturing. In this context, “gross” means on the scale of the whole body or region under consideration and the use of the terms brittle and ductile is only meaningful with proper reference to scale. For the study of brittle behavior, see Jaeger (1969), Paterson and Wong (2005), and Jaeger et al. (2007). In this chapter, we are mainly concerned with ductile behavior or plastic deformation.

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Paterson, M.S. (2013). Mechanical Fundamentals. In: Materials Science for Structural Geology. Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5545-1_4

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