Ideal Brittle Fracture of Silicon Studied with Molecular Dynamics
- 26 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (4) , 746-749
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.746
Abstract
Dynamic fracture experiments measure crack velocity versus energy flux to the tip. We report here the first calculation of this quantity in a realistic setting, using molecular dynamics to study silicon. The results require relating the short length and time scales of simulations to the long length and time scales of experiments.Keywords
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