Morphologies resulting from the directional propagation of fractures
- 26 February 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 67 (2), 027103
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.67.027103
Abstract
When growing in a stress gradient, cracks have a directional growth. We investigate here this type of instability in the case of a colloidal gel deposited on a substrate and left to dry. The use of various materials reveals the existence of two distinct types of dynamics. When the crack nucleation is easy a well known situation is reached: an array of periodic fractures forms, which grow parallel to each other and move quasistatically with the stressed region. In contrast, in materials where the crack nucleation is difficult, a subcritical process is observed with the retarded formation of isolated cracks which move faster and which display an arch shaped trajectory. This type of process appears to be generic in all cases where there is delayed nucleation. This is confirmed by experiments on the directional propagation of cracks in thermally stressed glass.Keywords
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