"developed a crack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a physical object (e.g. a wall, window, etc.) or an idea (e.g. an agreement, plan, etc.), when it has been damaged in some way. For example: "The treaty developed a crack when one of the parties refused to compromise."
One of the semiunderground trenches developed a crack a decade ago, allowing water to seep in, but the crack was soon fixed, he said.
The windshield in the Gurney/Foyt Mark IV developed a crack during the race.
The next day we returned to the showers for another round of stoning and discovered to our horror that each shower wall had developed a crack.
Shortly after it was installed, it too developed a crack and was kept out of service until its repair in 1862.
She developed a crack addiction when he was very young, he said, and has been mostly in prison since then on drug convictions, scattering her five children among various relatives and foster homes.
First, we have developed a crack surface approximation and particle split algorithm for three-dimensional through-thickness cracks.
Because the original engine, a 4-cyinder water-cooled power plant that made 40 horsepower, developed a cracked block, Mr. Klinger somewhat grudgingly replaced it with a short-block engine, cannibalizing parts from the old unit, like the water pump, when needed.
"This way, if a tunnel develops a crack, we can shut it off from here," he said.
When a specimen or component is subjected to repeated impacts it may develop a crack or cracks and eventually fracture.
The authors have been developing a crack propagation analysis system that can deal with arbitrary shaped cracks in three-dimensional solids.
The theory of ferromagnetic elastic materials of multidomain structure is applied to develop a crack growth rate equation of a finite crack in a soft ferromagnetic material under mode I tensile loading and uniform magnetic field.
