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L. Guerra Rosa et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 30 (2014) 438-445; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.30.53 442 Crack propagation velocity V is usually indicated in m/s . Region I is of primary interest since it represents the main duration of stable crack growth, which may be expressed as a power law:   n V A K  (14) where A and n are parameters which depend on the material and the stress-corrosion conditions, they can be determined from experimental data. I NTEGRATED ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE FOR STRUCTURAL GLASS COMPONENT DESIGN ollowing the above process of characterizing the mechanical properties of glasses, one integrated analysis procedure is developed in this section for the component design of glasses, which consists of two major steps: Step1: analyse the maximum tensile stresses in the component by the finite element method, taking into account the multiaxial loading conditions and the contact stresses between the glass component and the parts for mounting the glass. Step 2: transform the Weibull CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function that was adjusted to data obtained from specimens´ testing) for predicting the survival probabilities for the application conditions with different load type, load duration, and surface area. The glass-mount contact can be approximated by Hertzian contact of a cylinder on a flat glass surface. The contact half- width b can be expressed as [20]: * * 4 PR b E   (15) where 1 2 2 * 1 1 g m m g v v E E E              is the effective modulus, 1 * 1 1 m g R R R            is the contact radius, Young’s moduli E m and E g ,and Poisson ratios ν m and ν g are for the mounting part and the glass part, respectively. The stress distributions at the glass-mount contact area can be analysed using the equations derived in [20], compressive stresses occur in the zone just beneath the contact area, and the maximum tensile stress,  t,max , occurs on the glass surface just outside the contact area, which can be derived as:   , 2 1 2 3 g t max v P b     (16) where P is the loading force, b is the contact half-width, v g is the Poisson ratio of glass. Since the maximum tensile stress (the first principal stress) is critical for brittle materials, it is assumed as the applied stress in the following evaluation procedure. From Eq. (1) the stress at fracture  IC can be calculated as: 1/ 0 1 ln m IC s P                  (17) The initial stress-intensity K Ii at the crack tip may be estimated as: Ii Ic Ic K K          (18) Substituting Eq. (17) into Eq. (18) yields: F