Unsteady Crack Motion and Branching in a Phase-Field Model of Brittle Fracture

Details Unsteady Crack Motion and Branching in a Phase-Field Model of Brittle Fracture Unsteady Crack Motion and Branching in a Phase-Field Model of Brittle Fracture

2004-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401056v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

11 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.245510

Crack propagation is studied numerically using a continuum phase-field
approach to mode III brittle fracture. The results shed light on the physics
that controls the speed of accelerating cracks and the characteristic branching
instability at a fraction of the wave speed.

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