relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1165/
title: Roughness of fracture surfaces
creator: Parisi, Andrea
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: Pietronero, Luciano
subject: QC Physics
description: We study the roughness of fracture surfaces of three-dimensional samples through numerical simulations of a model for quasi-static cracks known as Born Model. We find for the roughness exponent a value ζ simeq 0.5 measured for "small length scales" in microfracturing experiments. Our simulations confirm that at small length scales the fracture can be considered as quasi-static. The isotropy of the roughness exponent on the crack surface is also showed. Finally, considering the crack front, we compute the roughness exponents of longitudinal and transverse fluctuations of the crack line (ζpar ~ ζ⊥ ~ 0.5). They result in agreement with experimental data, and support the possible application of the model of line depinning in the case of long-range interactions.
publisher: IOPscience
date: 2007
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Parisi, Andrea and Caldarelli, Guido and Pietronero, Luciano  Roughness of fracture surfaces.  EPL (Europhysics Letters), 52 (3).  pp. 304-310.  ISSN 0295-5075       (2007)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00439-9
relation: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00439-9