Patterns and Scaling in Fracture
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physica Scripta
- Vol. T38 (T38) , 13-21
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1991/t38/003
Abstract
The fracture of solids is regarded through a statistical physisists eye. Considering rather basic models we can give evidence for the appearance of fractal crack patterns. The breaking characteristics, i.e. the relation between force and displacement during rupture, can be obtained for these models. As function of the system size the breaking characteristics follows a scaling law. Just before the system fully breaks apart the distribution of local strain is multifractal.Keywords
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