Thermally activated intermittent dynamics of creeping crack fronts along disordered interfaces
Open Access
- 14 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scientific Reports
- Vol. 11 (1), 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98556-x
Abstract
We present a subcritical fracture growth model, coupled with the elastic redistribution of the acting mechanical stress along rugous rupture fronts. We show the ability of this model to quantitatively reproduce the intermittent dynamics of cracks propagating along weak disordered interfaces. To this end, we assume that the fracture energy of such interfaces (in the sense of a critical energy release rate) follows a spatially correlated normal distribution. We compare various statistical features from the obtained fracture dynamics to that from cracks propagating in sintered polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) interfaces. In previous works, it has been demonstrated that such an approach could reproduce the mean advance of fractures and their local front velocity distribution. Here, we go further by showing that the proposed model also quantitatively accounts for the complex self-affine scaling morphology of crack fronts and their temporal evolution, for the spatial and temporal correlations of the local velocity fields and for the avalanches size distribution of the intermittent growth dynamics. We thus provide new evidence that an Arrhenius-like subcritical growth is particularly suitable for the description of creeping cracks.Keywords
Funding Information
- Université de Strasbourg
- Universitetet i Oslo
- IRP France-Norway D-FFRACT
- Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics (14.W03.31.0002)
- Research Council of Norway (262644)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INSU ALEAS)
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