Dynamic Failure in Amorphous Solids via a Cavitation Instability
Materials Science
2009-11-13 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
The understanding of dynamic failure in amorphous materials via the propagation of free boundaries like cracks and voids must go beyond elasticity theory, since plasticity intervenes in a crucial and poorly understood manner near the moving free boundary. In this Letter we focus on failure via a cavitation instability in a radially-symmetric stressed material, set up the free boundary dynamics taking both elasticity and visco-plasticity into account, using the recently proposed athermal Shear Transformation Zone theory. We demonstrate the existence (in amorphous systems) of fast cavitation modes accompanied by extensive plastic deformations and discuss the revealed physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.1622,
title = {Dynamic Failure in Amorphous Solids via a Cavitation Instability},
author = {Eran Bouchbinder and Ting-Shek Lo and Itamar Procaccia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1622},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures