Thermal noise and the branching threshold in brittle fracture

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1994-1997

  Sander, L M ^a   Ghaisas, S V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICA; THERMAL NOISE;

MIRROR MIST HACKLE FORMATION;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 0032614574     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1994     Document Type: Article

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