Avalanches in Wood Compression
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© 2015 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Mäkinen, T. & Miksic, A. & Ovaska, M. & Alava, Mikko J. 2015. Avalanches in Wood Compression. Physical Review Letters. Volume 115, Issue 5. 055501/1-5. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.055501, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.055501.
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2015
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055501/1-5
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Physical Review Letters, Volume 115, Issue 5
Abstract
Wood is a multiscale material exhibiting a complex viscoplastic response. We study avalanches in small wood samples in compression. “Woodquakes” measured by acoustic emission are surprisingly similar to earthquakes and crackling noise in rocks and laboratory tests on brittle materials. Both the distributions of event energies and of waiting (silent) times follow power laws. The stress-strain response exhibits clear signatures of localization of deformation to “weak spots” or softwood layers, as identified using digital image correlation. Even though material structure-dependent localization takes place, the avalanche behavior remains scale-free.Description
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avalanches, wood samples in compression
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Mäkinen, T. & Miksic, A. & Ovaska, M. & Alava, Mikko J. 2015. Avalanches in Wood Compression. Physical Review Letters. Volume 115, Issue 5. 055501/1-5. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.055501.
