A Mother-daughter-granddaughter mechanism of shear dominated intersonic crack motion along interfaces of dissimilar materials

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 763-769

  Buehler, Markus J ^a   Gao, Huajian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic fracture; Interface crack; Molecular dynamics; Mother daughter granddaughter crack

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACK PROPAGATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; SEPARATION; SHEAR STRESS;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DYNAMIC FRACTURE; INTERFACE CRACK; MOTHER-DAUGHTER-GRANDAUGHTER CRACK;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 7044247775     PISSN: 02533839     EISSN: 21587299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533839.2004.9670927     Document Type: Article

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