Mechanical Failure of a Small and Confined Solid

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dc.creatorChaudhuri, Debasish
dc.creatorSengupta, Surajit
dc.date2005-08-22
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dc.descriptionStarting from a commensurate triangular thin solid strip, confined within two hard structureless walls, a stretch along its length introduces a rectangular distortion. Beyond a critical strain the solid fails through nucleation of "smectic"-like bands. We show using computer simulations and simple density functional based arguments, how a solid-smectic transition mediates the failure. Further, we show that the critical strain introducing failure is {\em inversely} proportional to the channel width i.e. thinner strips are stronger!
dc.description6 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Indian Journal of Physics (in press) as a Conference proceeding of CMDAYS-04
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508513
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508513
dc.identifierIndian Journal of Physics 79, 941 (2005)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/126218
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleMechanical Failure of a Small and Confined Solid
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