Intermittency and roughening in the failure of brittle heterogeneous materials

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Bonamy, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS UMR 3299   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRITTLE CRACKS; CRACK GROWTH; CRACKLING NOISE; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; CRITICAL REVIEW; DISORDERED MEDIA; ENERGY RELEASE; FAILURE PROPERTIES; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURING SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; INTERMITTENCY; JERKY DYNAMICS; LOADING CONDITION; MACRO SCALE; MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURES; MICRO-SCALES; STRESS ENHANCEMENT; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

CRACKS;

EID: 70450203977     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/21/214014     Document Type: Article

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