 ##  [Ductile Fracture](/index.php/ductile-fracture) 

  ##  [Ductile Fracture](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/ductile-fracture-0) 

  
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Definition

A material failure mode in which extensive plastic deformation occurs before separation, characterized microscopically by nucleation, growth and coalescence of voids and macroscopically by necking and a gradual, blunted crack path.