Materials Breaking: Collection of Videos

High magnification (electron microscope?) image of lathe tools turning various steels.  Steel’s deformation is ductile, like clay.

Ultra high speed footage of breaking glass, showing a brittle fracture that propagates at about half the speed of sound in glass (kilometers per second).

Even higher speed footage (500ns between frames) of plexiglass cracking:

Tensile stretching steel rebar to failure.  There is a lot of plastic deformation before the final break.

Without steel reinforcing, concrete fails in a brittle fashion, with cracks opening up in the areas in tension.

At supersonic velocity, a crash test dummy can obliterate a cinder block wall.