With the landscape of network damage explored in Sec. 2.3 and Sec. 2.4, we can now study how to provoke damage under controlled circumstances. As discussed in Sec. 2.1, one of the simplest forms of defect to introduce is a missing edge. The missing edge defects may provide a weak point in the network for larger ruptures to propagate from. Fig. shows how long it takes for networks with N broken bonds removed to experience their first irreparable damage when the simulation cell is stretched sinusoidally with increasing amplitude. Each data point represents an average over ten networks with a given fraction of edges removed. For the random edge removal, different edges were removed on each repeat. For the progressive edge removal, the same random seed was used such that all the networks had the same 0.0500 fraction of edges removed, and the edges removed for the 0.100 fraction simulations is a superset of the edges removed for the 0.0500 simulations. Each simulated network underwent 40 oscillations over 100 µs of linearly increasing amplitude up to a maximum of A = 1.5. The temperature was set to 100 K, and potential model parameters of ε = D e = 16.0 × 10 -21 J were used. Each set of simulation parameters was averaged over five instances. This graph shows three clear regions: