Sandra Hüller is Ines, a brittle, Bucharest-based management consultant whose sterile existence is sent into a spin by her puckish, burly dad (Peter Simonischek), who rocks up in a wig and Ken Dodd-ish false teeth, variously claiming to be the German ambassador or Ion Tiriac's tennis partner.
A model for design against brittle failure based on recent fracture mechanics findings is proposed.
In agents optimized for performance, control structures and domain knowledge are often intertwined, providing efficient execution but brittle knowledge bases that scale poorly.
A procedure for design against brittle failure based on a fracture mechanics model is available in the recent European pressure vessel standard EN 13 445.
For this purpose, an effort was made to model the critical depth of cut of the rock failure transition from ductile to brittle mode based on the rock fragmentation theory.
The drawbacks of the classical theory of brittle fracture, based on Griffith's criterion – a notion of critical energy release rate –, and a fracture toughness k, are numerous (think for instance the issue of crack initiation) and penalize its validity as a good model.
An elastic-brittle model based on material property degradation was implemented in a 2D finite-difference scheme and used for rock elements subjected to tension and shear failure.
By way of example, Boskey and her collaborators have characterized a new form of brittle bone disease (osteoporosis) based on structural changes in the collagen component of mineralized tissue [ 1].
