Scaling behavior of thermal shock crack patterns and tunneling cracks driven by cooling or drying

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1411-1421

  Bahr, Hans Achim ^a   Weiss, Hans Jürgen ^b   Bahr, Ute ^a   Hofmann, Martin ^a   Fischer, Gottfried ^c   Lampenscherf, Stefan ^d   Balke, Herbert ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL AND BEAM TECHNOLOGY IWS   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crack mechanics; Crack pattern formation; Crack propagation and arrest; Fracture; Stability and bifurcation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION ANALYSIS; CRACK LENGTH; CRACK MECHANICS; CRACK PATTERN FORMATION; CRACK PATTERNS; CRACK PROPAGATION AND ARREST; CRACK SPACING; CRACK VELOCITIES; DRYING LAYERS; HALF-SPACE; LAYER THICKNESS; MUTUAL INTERACTION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SPECIFIC INTERACTION; STABILITY AND BIFURCATION; STRAIGHT CRACK; TUNNELING CRACKS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CRACK PROPAGATION; DRYING; FRACTURE; MECHANICS; SCALING LAWS; SHRINKAGE; THERMAL SHOCK;

CRACKS;

EID: 78049317665     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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