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creators_name: Parisi, Andrea
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_id: 
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
title: Self-affine properties of fractures in brittle materials
ispublished: pub
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS: 62.20.Mk; 05.40.+j; 81.40.Np
abstract: We present the result of numerical simulations for a fracturing process in a three-dimensional solid subjected to a mode-I load in a quasi-static regime. The solid is described using the Born model on an FCC lattice with a starting notch. We obtain a value of the roughness exponent ζ≃0.5 in agreement with the value measured in microfracturing experiments. Our result supports the idea that at small length scales the fracturing process can be considered as quasi-static, which is the basic of the possible application of the model of line depinning to the case of fractures.
date: 2000-05
date_type: published
publication: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
volume: 280
number: 1-2
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 161-165
id_number: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00633-0
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0378-4371
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00633-0
citation:   Parisi, Andrea and Caldarelli, Guido  Self-affine properties of fractures in brittle materials.  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 280 (1-2).  pp. 161-165.  ISSN 0378-4371      (2000)