Avalanches and clusters in planar crack front propagation

Details Avalanches and clusters in planar crack front propagation Avalanches and clusters in planar crack front propagation

2009-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2380v2

Phys. Rev. E 81, 046116 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E

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We study avalanches in a model for a planar crack propagating in a disordered medium. Due to long-range interactions, avalanches are formed by a set of spatially disconnected local clusters, the sizes of which are distributed according to a power law with an exponent $\tau_{a}=1.5$. We derive a scaling relation $\tau_a=2\tau-1$ between the local cluster exponent $\tau_a$ and the global avalanche exponent $\tau$. For length scales longer than a cross-over length proportional to the Larkin length, the aspect ratio of the local clusters scales with the roughness exponent of the line model. Our analysis provides an explanation for experimental results on planar crack avalanches in Plexiglas plates, but the results are applicable also to other systems with long-range interactions.

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