Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. destruction (process)
6. breaking

Anotations

Scope note:

Breakage, cracking, or slippage caused by shear stress, which is the force that tends to cause deformation of a material by slippage along a plane or planes parallel to the imposed stress. Shear failure is often in reference to geological or architectural materials.