Pattern Selection of Cracks in Directionally Drying Fracture
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 36 (1R)
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.36.391
Abstract
We study pattern selection of cracks in directionally drying fractures by analyzing the experimental systems recently devised by C. Allain and L. Limat [Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 2981]. Proposing a simple picture of crack formation, we clarify the mechanism of how cracks become regularly arrayed and find that the interval between neighboring cracks is proportional to the 2/3 power of the cell thickness. This result explains well the experimental data of Allain and Limat.Keywords
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