Periodic cracking of films supported on compliant substrates

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1927-1937

  Thouless, M D ^a   Li, Z ^a   Douville, N J ^a   Takayama, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack propagation and arrest; Crack spacing; Fracture; Layered material; Polymeric material

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; COMPLIANT SUBSTRATES; CRACK ARRAYS; CRACK PROPAGATION AND ARREST; CRACK SPACING; CRITICAL RATIO; CRITICAL STRAINS; LAYERED MATERIAL; PARALLEL CRACK; PERIODIC CRACKS; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; SINGLE CHANNELS;

CRACKS; FRACTURE; POLYMERIC FILMS; TENSILE STRAIN;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 79960188088     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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