PSI - Issue 33

Jesús Toribio et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 33 (2021) 1187–1192 Jesús Toribio / Porcedia Structural Integrity 00 (2021) 000–000

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Fig. 3. Paintings by Tintoretto ( La lavanda dei piedi ) and Picasso ( Three musicians ). In the matter of notch-induced fracture (Toribio, 2018), heavily cold drawn pearlitic steels exhibit a fracture profile resembling Masaccio’s Tribute Money (MTM) painting (Fig. 4) with its mountains at the background, so that the anisotropic fracture profile can be classified as a MTM topography , this idea representing a Tribute to Masaccio.

Fig. 4. The Tribute Money by Masaccio.

As described by Toribio (2019), the anisotropic fracture of cold drawn pearlitic steel (with deflected polygonal cracks and mixed mode propagation ) resembles the cubist painting by Pablo Picasso (Fig. 5), not only because of the broken line after crack deflection/deviation, but also on the basis of a real change of viewpoint in painting .

Fig. 5. Paintings by Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (detail) (left) and Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (right) Such an anisotropic behaviour in the form of sudden changes in crack paths and very different lines ( or rays ) marking propagation direction also resembles the rayonist painting by Mijail Larionov (Fig. 6) in which many straight lines (many rays or directions) define the painted object.