The more German industry excels, the more other Europeans feel that Germany's success comes at their expense, cracking open schisms within the euro zone just when the region can least afford them.

The given values may be unconservative for tensile cracking caused by restrained shrinkage anchor zone splitting and other such tensile forces caused by effects other than flexure.

In frequent bending stress condition, fatigue cracking occurred due to the cracking source had been initiated in welding heat affected zone.