Roughening of a propagating planar crack front

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review E, Volume 62, issue 2, pp. 2878-2881

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A numerical model of the front of a planar crack propagating between two connected elastic plates is investigated. The plates are modeled as square lattices of elastic beams. The plates are connected by similar but breakable beams with a randomly varying stiffness. The crack is driven by pulling both plates at one end in Mode I at a constant rate. We find ζ=1/3,z=4/3, and β=1/4 for the roughness, dynamical, and growth exponents, respectively, that describe the front behavior. This is similar to continuum limit analyses based on a perturbative stress-intensity treatment of the front [H. Gao and J. R. Rice, J. Appl. Mech. 56, 828 (1989)]. We discuss the differences to recent experiments.

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Åström, J A, Alava, M J & Timonen, J 2000, 'Roughening of a propagating planar crack front', Physical Review E, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 2878-2881. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.62.2878