Fracture path in brittle thin sheets: A unifying review on tearing

We review several studies of crack path in brittle thin sheets where large out of plane bending is involved. Fracture path are observed to be very reproducible. We present a unifying framework based on an energetic point of view. A simplified description, where the sheet is considered to behave as an inextensible fabric, captures important features of experiments: the fact that fracture path seems to obey geometry. We quantify the possible effects of additional bending and stretching terms, and estimate the validity of the model.