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vertical direction along the tension loading. In the loaded stage, these edges are under compression, and crack development in these corners as well as in the neighborhood of these particles, as shown in Kashtalyan et al. (2016), is not possible.

Fig. 8. Crack propagation in various particle variation models.

Fig. 9. Tensile strength of particle variation models.