Plastic Flow/Fracture: Stress Components Impact

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Why is plastic flow promoted by large algebraic differences in the principal stress components, whereas fracture is promoted by a large algebraic sum of these stresses?
 
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Hm, it would be great to present some examples, i.e. some expressions.