Failure mechanisms and surface roughness statistics of fractured Fontainebleau sandstone

Details Failure mechanisms and surface roughness statistics of fractured Fontainebleau sandstone Failure mechanisms and surface roughness statistics of fractured Fontainebleau sandstone

2007-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2925v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.036108

In an effort to investigate the link between failure mechanisms and the geometry of fractures of compacted grains materials, a detailed statistical analysis of the surfaces of fractured Fontainebleau sandstones has been achieved. The roughness of samples of different widths W is shown to be self affine with an exponent zeta=0.46 +- 0.05 over a range of length scales ranging from the grain size d up to an upper cut-off length \xi = 0.15 W. This low zeta value is in agreement with measurements on other sandstones and on sintered materials. The probability distributions P(delta z,delta h) of the variations of height over different distances delta z > d can be collapsed onto a single Gaussian distribution with a suitable normalisation and do not display multifractal features. The roughness amplitude, as characterized by the height-height correlation over fixed distances delta z, does not depend on the sample width, implying that no anomalous scaling of the type reported for other materials is present. It is suggested, in agreement with recent theoretical work, to explain these results by the occurence of brittle fracture (instead of damage failure in materials displaying a higher value of zeta = 0.8).

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