Dissipative Visco-plastic Deformation in Dynamic Fracture: Tip Blunting and Velocity Selection

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2006-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604050v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 134301 (2006).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 1 figures; presentation improved, refs. changed, figure omitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.134301

Dynamic fracture in a wide class of materials reveals "fracture energy" $\Gamma$ much larger than the expected nominal surface energy due to the formation of two fresh surfaces. Moreover, the fracture energy depends on the crack velocity, $\Gamma=\Gamma(v)$. We show that a simple dynamical theory of visco-plasticity coupled to asymptotic pure linear-elasticity provides a possible explanation to the above phenomena. The theory predicts tip blunting characterized by a dynamically determined crack tip radius of curvature. In addition, we demonstrate velocity selection for cracks in fixed-grip strip geometry accompanied by the identification of $\Gamma$ and its velocity dependence.

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