Crack growth by surface diffusion in viscoelastic media

Details Crack growth by surface diffusion in viscoelastic media Crack growth by surface diffusion in viscoelastic media

2008-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/0803.0948v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.205501

We discuss steady state crack growth in the spirit of a free boundary problem. It turns out that mode I and mode III situations are very different from each other: In particular, mode III exhibits a pronounced transition towards unstable crack growth at higher driving forces, and the behavior close to the Griffith point is determined entirely through crack surface dissipation, whereas in mode I the fracture energy is renormalized due to a remaining finite viscous dissipation. Intermediate mixed-mode scenarios allow steady state crack growth with higher velocities, leading to the conjecture that mode I cracks can be unstable with respect to a rotation of the crack front line.

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