Why do shear fractures not form at 45 to 1, where the resolved shear stress is at

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Why do shear fractures not form at 45° to σ1, where the resolved shear stress is at its maximum?

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Structural Geology

ISBN: 9781107057647

2nd Edition

Authors: Haakon Fossen

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