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A tectonic earthquake begins by an initial rupture at a point on the fault surface, a process known as nucleation. The scale of the nucleation zone is uncertain, with some evidence, such as the rupture dimensions of the smallest earthquakes, suggesting that it is smaller than 100 m while other evidence, such as a slow component revealed by low-frequency spectra of some earthquakes, suggest ...
Abdominal hernia, formerly referred to as "a rupture"; Achilles tendon rupture; Rupture of membranes, a "water breaking" event of pregnancy . Premature rupture of membranes, when the amniotic sac ruptures more than an hour before the onset of labor
Fracture is the appearance of a crack or complete separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress.The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid.
Autothysis (from the Greek roots autos-αὐτός "self" and thysia θυσία "sacrifice") or suicidal altruism is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin.
Surface rupture caused by normal faulting along the Lost River Fault, during the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake. In seismology, surface rupture (or ground rupture, or ground displacement) is the visible offset of the ground surface when an earthquake rupture along a fault affects the Earth's surface.
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.Earthquakes may also be referred to as quakes, tremors, or temblors.
The quantities commonly used to define ductility in a tension test are relative elongation (in percent, sometimes denoted as ) and reduction of area (sometimes denoted as ) at fracture. [16] Fracture strain is the engineering strain at which a test specimen fractures during a uniaxial tensile test .
In the above definitions of engineering stress and strain, two behaviors of materials in tensile tests are ignored: the shrinking of section area; compounding development of elongation; True stress and true strain are defined differently than engineering stress and strain to account for these behaviors. They are given as