Introduction

Static creep fracture in brittle solids (e.g., glass, ceramic, concrete, ice and rock et al.) has a great significance for the evaluation of material lifetime in engineering application (e.g., deep underground engineering, architecture engineering, aerospace engineering, natural gas engineering, petroleum engineering, mechanical manufacturing engineering et al.). Numerous initial microcracks are being in brittle solids. The internal microcrack variations (e.g., friction, initiation, growth, recovery, nucleation, and coalescence) have great effect on the static creep fracture in brittle solids.