https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/627587
標題: | Instability in dynamic fracture and the failure of the classical theory of cracks | 作者: | CHIH-HUNG CHEN Eran Bouchbinder Alain Karma |
關鍵字: | Physics - Soft Condensed Matter; Physics - Soft Condensed Matter; Physics - Materials Science | 公開日期: | 12-七月-2017 | 卷: | 13 | 期: | 12 | 來源出版物: | Nature Physics 13, 1186 (2017) | 摘要: | Cracks, the major vehicle for material failure, tend to accelerate to high velocities in brittle materials. In three-dimensions, cracks generically undergo a micro-branching instability at about 40% of their sonic limiting velocity. Recent experiments showed that in sufficiently thin systems cracks unprecedentedly accelerate to nearly their limiting velocity without micro-branching, until they undergo an oscillatory instability. Despite their fundamental importance and apparent similarities to other instabilities in condensed-matter physics and materials science, these dynamic fracture instabilities remain poorly understood. They are not described by the classical theory of cracks, which assumes that linear elasticity is valid inside a stressed material and uses an extraneous local symmetry criterion to predict crack paths. Here we develop a model of two-dimensional dynamic brittle fracture capable of predicting arbitrary paths of ultra-high-speed cracks in the presence of elastic nonlinearity without extraneous criteria. We show, by extensive computations, that cracks undergo a dynamic oscillatory instability controlled by small-scale elastic nonlinearity near the crack tip. This instability occurs above a ultra-high critical velocity and features an intrinsic wavelength that increases proportionally to the ratio of the fracture energy to an elastic modulus, in quantitative agreement with experiments. This ratio emerges as a fundamental scaling length assumed to play no role in the classical theory of cracks, but shown here to strongly influence crack dynamics. Those results pave the way for resolving other long-standing puzzles in the failure of materials. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/627587 | ISSN: | 1745-2473 1745-2481 |
DOI: | 10.1038/nphys4237 |
顯示於: | 應用力學研究所 |
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