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Super-Arrhenius dynamics for sub-critical crack growth in two-dimensional disordered brittle media

Description : Taking into account stress fluctuations due to thermal noise, we study thermally activated irreversible crack growth in disordered media. The influence of material disorder on sub-critical growth of a single crack in two-dimensional brittle elastic material is described through the introduction of a...
Language(s) : English
Subject(s) : [PHYS:MECA:MEMA] Physics/Mechanics/Mechanics of materials , [PHYS:COND:CM_MS] Physics/Condensed Matter/Materials Science , Fracture , Disordered systems , Slow crack growth
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Source(s) : Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Publication Date(s) : 2006-01-01