Andrade and Critical Time-to-Failure Laws in Fiber-Matrix Composites: Experiments and Model

Details Andrade and Critical Time-to-Failure Laws in Fiber-Matrix Composites: Experiments and Model Andrade and Critical Time-to-Failure Laws in Fiber-Matrix Composites: Experiments and Model

2004-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404035v1

Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS) 53, 1099-1127 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

31 pages, 20 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jmps.2004.12.001

We present creep experiments on fiber composite materials. Recorded strain rates and acoustic emission (AE) rates exhibit both a power law relaxation in the primary creep regime and a power-law acceleration before global failure. In particular, we observe time-to-failure power laws in the tertiary regime for acoustic emissions over four decades in time. We also discover correlations between some characteristics of the primary creep (exponent of the power-law and duration) and the time to failure of the samples. This result indicates that the tertiary regime is dependent on the relaxation and damage processes that occur in the primary regime and suggests a method of prediction of the time to failure based on the early time recording of the strain rate or AE rate. We consider a simple model of representative elements, interacting via democratic load sharing, with a large heterogeneity of strengths. Each element consists of a non-linear dashpot in parallel with a spring. This model recovers the experimental observations of the strain rate as a function of time.

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