Abstract

The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Griffith's Fracture Theory. Many scholars regard Griffith as the father of the linear elastic fracture mechanics. Here, Nicola Pugno—who received the Griffith Medal and Prize in 2017—reflects on some Griffith's based approaches and quantized-related extensions of the original theory, as he has orally presented this year during his Plenary Opening Lecture at the quadrennial 25<sup>th</sup> International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

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