Cracks in rubber under tension exceed the shear wave speed

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Petersan, Paul J ^a   Deegan, Robert D ^a   Marder, M ^a   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SHEAR WAVES; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; SPEED CONTROL; TENSORS;

DYNAMIC FRACTURE THEORY; INTERSONIC CRACKS; LINEAR ELASTIC SOLIDS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS;

RUBBER;

EID: 3442882162     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.015504     Document Type: Article

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