shear failure

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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.
shear failure
Accepted term: 09-Mar-2026