The key problems of local approach to cleavage fracture

Based on the suggested multi-scale model of Local Approach (LA) to fracture, four main problems of LA are considered, namely: (i) the effect of micro-stress fluctuations on the crack nuclei instability; (ii) intensity of micro-crack nucleation and its influence on fracture probability; (iii) theoretical and experimental assessment of the value of threshold stress; (iv) stochastic analysis of ``multi-barrier'' effect at micro-crack growth in polycrystalline metal.