Brittle/quasi-brittle transition in dynamic fracture: An energetic signature

Details Brittle/quasi-brittle transition in dynamic fracture: An energetic signature Brittle/quasi-brittle transition in dynamic fracture: An energetic signature

2009-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/0906.2877v3

Physical Review Letters 104, 4 (2010) 045501

Physics

Classical Physics

5 pages, 4 figures, published version, Article highlighted in Physical Review Focus (February 12th, 2010)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.045501

Dynamic fracture experiments were performed in PMMA over a wide range of velocities and reveal that the fracture energy exhibits an abrupt 3-folds increase from its value at crack initiation at a well-defined critical velocity, below the one associated to the onset of micro-branching instability. This transition is associated with the appearance of conics patterns on fracture surfaces that, in many materials, are the signature of damage spreading through the nucleation and growth of microcracks. A simple model allows to relate both the energetic and fractographic measurements. These results suggest that dynamic fracture at low velocities in amorphous materials is controlled by the brittle/quasi-brittle transition studied here.

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