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International Journal of Solids and Structures 47 (2010) 887–893 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Solids and Structures journal homepage: www.else /locate/ijsolstr On the most dangerous V-notch A. Carpinteri, P. Cornetti *, N. Pugno, A. Sapora Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The determination of the failure load for brittle or quasi-brittle specimens containing a re-entrant corner Received 27 June 2009 has been faced by several authors, whose approaches are available in the Scientific Literature. However, Received in revised form 26 October 2009 up to now, little attention has been paid to the presence of a minimum, i.e. an angle at which the critical Available online 27 November 2009 load attains its minimum value. Even if the minimum was detected in several experiments, it was not highlighted or it was considered as a mere consequence of the scattering of experimental data. Restricting Keywords: the analysis to a sharp V-notched infinite slab under a remote tensile load, the problem is fully investi- V-notches gated in this paper. It is shown that a minimum, more or less pronounced according to the brittleness Notch sensitivity Brittleness number number, is always present. It means that the edge crack is not the most dangerous configur