Dynamics and structure of interfacial crack fronts

dc.creatorMaloy, Knut Jorgen
dc.creatorToussaint, Renaud
dc.creatorSchmittbuhl, Jean
dc.date2006-11-01
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dc.descriptionThe propagation of an interfacial crack front through a weak plane of a transparent Plexiglas block has been studied experimentally. A stable crack in mode I was generated by loading the system by an imposed displacement. The local velocities of the fracture front line have been measured by using an high speed CCD camera. The distribution of the velocities exhibits a power law behavior for velocities larger than the average front velocity <v> with a crossover to a slowly increasing function for velocities lower than <v>. The fluctuations in the velocities reflect an underlying irregular bursts activity with a power law distribution of the bursts. We further found that the size of the local bursts scales differently in the direction parallel to and perpendicular to the fracture front.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611009
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611009
dc.identifierProceedings of the 11th international congress on fracture CDRom (Ed.) (2005) 6 pages
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118648
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.subjectGeophysics
dc.titleDynamics and structure of interfacial crack fronts
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