Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-01-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We investigate by numerical simulation the system size dependence of the shear delamination strength of thin elastic films. The films are connected to a rigid substrate by a disordered interface containing a pre-existing crack. The size dependence of the strength of this system is found to depend crucially on the crack shape. For circular cracks, we observe a crossover between a size-independent regime at large crack radii which is controlled by propagation of the pre-existing crack, and a size-dependent regime at small radii which is dominated by nucleation of new cracks in other locations. For cracks of finite width that span the system transversally, we observe for all values of the crack length a logarithmic system size dependence of the failure stress. The results are interpreted in terms of extreme value statistics.
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