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Two types of core fracture are compared in the figure: tearing and brittle fracture. (a,c) contain the speckle pattern, whereas (e) indicates, approximately, analyzed area. In (b), the strain field of the core is presented with strain localized near the left edge due to tearing. In (d), the strain is evenly distributed over the core, causing a brittle failure.
