Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
1994-11-02
Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 43 (1995) 1-48
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
About fifty pages with lots of PostScript figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/0022-5096(94)00060-I
This paper demonstrates that rapid fracture of ideal brittle lattices naturally involves phenomena long seen in experiment, but which have been hard to understand from a continuum point of view. These idealized models do not mimic realistic microstructure, but can be solved exactly and understood completely. First it is shown that constant velocity crack solutions do not exist at all for a range of velocities starting at zero and ranging up to about one quarter of the shear wave speed. Next it is shown that above this speed cracks are by and large linearly stable, but that at sufficiently high velocity they become unstable with respect to a nonlinear micro-cracking instability. The way this instability works itself out is related to the scenario known as intermittency, and the basic time scale which governs it is the inverse of the amount of dissipation in the model. Finally, we compare the theoretical framework with some new experiments in Plexiglas, and show that all qualitative features of the theory are mirrored in our experimental results.
Gross Steve
Marder Michael
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