Formation of crack patterns in clay films: Desiccation and relaxation

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Mal, Dibyendu ^a   Sinha, Suparna ^a   Dutta, Tapati ^b   Mitra, S ^a   Tarafdar, Sujata ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ST XAVIER S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Clay; Crack patterns; Desiccation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847362826     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.76.014801     Document Type: Article

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