Drying Patterns: Sensitivity to Residual Stresses
Materials Science
2015-05-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
Volume alteration in solid materials is a common cause of material failure. Here we investigate the crack formation in thin elastic layers attached to a substrate. We show that small variations in the volume contraction and substrate restraint can produce widely different crack patterns ranging from spirals to complex hierarchical networks. The networks are formed when there is no prevailing gradient in material contraction whereas spirals are formed in the presence of a radial gradient in the contraction of a thin elastic layer.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.0797,
title = {Drying Patterns: Sensitivity to Residual Stresses},
author = {Yossi Cohen and Joachim Mathiesen and Itamar Procaccia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0797},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures