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Physics: Glass physics deals with topics such as the nature of the glass transition, optical properties of glass, fracture mechanics, and the modeling of glass behavior based on fundamental thermodynamic principles (deductive glass modeling). Important articles, for example, Physics of glass or Refractive index are summarized in the category Glass physics.

Fracture mechanics
Unfortunatey, the theory of fracture mechanics in brittle materials is quite laborious - tho interesting. The good news is that we already have an excellent start on the subject in our article on fracture mechanics. In my opinion, the key texts in this field have been authored by R.W. Davidge, Brian Lawn and David Green as part of the Cambridge Solid State Science Series, with UCSB's A.G 'Tony' Evans from Princeton U on the cutting edge in the field of composite materials.
Based on the texts alone, we could easily double (or even triple) the size of the current article to include additional key factors, such as the impact of dislocation motion and other stuctural features on creep and plastic deformation in glasses and glass/ ceramics?

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