Two-dimensional scaling properties of experimental fracture surfaces

Details Two-dimensional scaling properties of experimental fracture surfaces Two-dimensional scaling properties of experimental fracture surfaces

2006-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601087v1

Physical Review Letters 96 (2006) 035506

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035506

The morphology of fracture surfaces encodes the various complex damage and fracture processes occurring at the microstructure scale that have lead to the failure of a given heterogeneous material. Understanding how to decipher this morphology is therefore of fundamental interest. This has been extensively investigated over these two last decades. It has been established that 1D profiles of these fracture surfaces exhibit properties of scaling invariance. In this paper, we present deeper analysis and investigate the 2D scaling properties of these fracture surfaces. We showed that the properties of scaling invariance are anisotropic and evidenced the existence of two peculiar directions on the post-mortem fracture surface caracterized by two different scaling exponents: the direction of the crack growth and the direction of the crack front. These two exponents were found to be universal, independent of the crack growth velocity, in both silica glass and aluminum alloy, archetype of brittle and ductile material respectively. Moreover, the 2D structure function that fully characterizes the scaling properties of the fracture surface was shown to take a peculiar form similar to the one predicted by some models issued from out-of-equilibrium statistical physics. This suggest some promising analogies between dynamic phase transition models and the stability of a crack front pinned/unpinned by the heterogenities of the material.

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