“…The simplest one is to consider that the crack is always open (Papadopoulos and Dimarogonas (1987), Zhou et al (2005) and Papadopoulos (2008), among others), or that the crack is open or closed, so that the crack is half the rotation in the open state and the other half in the closed one. This model, commonly called "switching" model has been used quite often i.e by Gasch (1976), Muller et al (1994), Pu et al (2002), Qin et al (2003), Qin et al (2004), Gasch (2008) due to its simplicity. However the most feasible behavior of the crack is that called the "breathing" behavior.…”