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How do cracks happen?

For something to crack, a force must be acting on it:







Pushing and pulling courtesy of Dave and Tim of the Winter Structural Lab at Cornell.

These forces can make things break or crack -- like when the tab comes off the soda can when you move it back and forth.

So it's important to understand what causes cracks so we can try not to cause them.

Try an experiment!

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