At the larger scale, material failures are prevalent in various scenarios, take even ripping a paper in half. While it can often seem simple at the macro-scale, the micro-scale often holds various non-uniform properties that can influence a crack to grow in any direction . As a crack grows throughout the bulk of a material, even a small angle of deflection can result in various lives being saved, along with the ability for materials to be inspected for failure before it can occur.