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The current study explores the analysis of crack in initially stressed, rotating material strips, drawing insights from singular integral equations. In this work, a self-reinforced material strip with finite thickness and infinite extent,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Soniya Chaudhary , Diksha , Pawan Kumar Sharma

Adhesion hysteresis can be caused by elastic instabilities that are triggered by surface roughness or chemical heterogeneity. However, the role of these instabilities in adhesion hysteresis remains poorly understood because we lack…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-09 Antoine Sanner , Lars Pastewka

The interaction between neighboring cracks has been shown to strongly influence the fracture behavior of graphene. While previous studies focused primarily on crack spacing, the role of crack width remains poorly understood. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Suyeong Jin , Jung-Wuk Hong , Alexandre F. Fonseca

In this paper we analyze a system for brittle delamination between two visco-elastic bodies, also subject to inertia, which can be interpreted as a model for dynamic fracture. The rate-independent flow rule for the delamination parameter is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Riccarda Rossi , Marita Thomas

A variational model to simultaneously treat Stress-Driven Rearrangement Instabilities, such as boundary discontinuities, internal cracks, external filaments, edge delamination, wetting, and brittle fractures, is introduced. The model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Shokhrukh Yu. Kholmatov , Paolo Piovano

Due to their microstructure, quasi brittle materials present rough cracks. Under sliding of the crack lips, this roughness involves in one hand induced opening and in the other hand some apparent plasticity which is due to the interlocking…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Marc Louis Maurice François

Friction plays a fundamental role in many natural processes, including earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions. Earthquakes occur when highly compressed fault surfaces accumulate large enough shear stresses, causing the faults to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-16 Mary Agajanian , Nadia Lapusta , Anna Pandolfi , Michael Ortiz

The failure of the population of micro-junctions forming the frictional interface between two solids is central to fields ranging from biomechanics to seismology. This failure is mediated by the propagation along the interface of various…

We study depinning of vortex chains in channels formed by static, disordered vortex arrays. Depinning is governed either by the barrier for defect nucleation or for defect motion, depending on whether the chain periodicity is commensurate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 R. Besseling , T. Dröse , V. M. Vinokur , P. H. Kes

We study patterns that arise in the wake of an externally triggered, spatially propagating instability in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. We model the trigger by a spatial inhomogeneity moving with constant speed. In the comoving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Ryan Goh , Arnd Scheel

On microscopic and mesoscopic scales, plastic flow of crystals is characterized by large intrinsic fluctuations. Deformation by crystallographic slip occurs in a sequence of intermittent bursts ('slip avalanches') with power-law size…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Zaiser , Paolo Moretti

We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, the system evolves intermittently between mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-09 Yann-Edwin Keta , Rituparno Mandal , Peter Sollich , Robert L. Jack , Ludovic Berthier

We establish sharp nonlinear stability results for fronts that describe the creation of a periodic pattern through the invasion of an unstable state. The fronts we consider are critical, in the sense that they are expected to mediate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Montie Avery , Paul Carter , Björn de Rijk , Arnd Scheel

The onset of frictional motion at the interface between two distinct bodies in contact is characterized by the propagation of dynamic rupture fronts. We combine friction experiments and numerical simulations to study the properties of these…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Ilya Svetlizky , Gabriele Albertini , Gil Cohen , David S. Kammer , Jay Fineberg

The extent to which time-dependent fracture criteria affect the dynamic behavior of fracture in a discrete structure is discussed in this work. The simplest case of a semi-infinite isotropic chain of oscillators has been studied. Two…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-24 Nikolai Gorbushin , Gennaro Vitucci , Grigory Volkov , Gennady Mishuris

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

Description of the transitional process from a static to a dynamic frictional regime is a fundamental problem of modern physics. Previously we developed a model based on the well-known Frenkel-Kontorova model to describe dry macroscopic…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Naum I. Gershenzon , Gust Bambakidis , Thomas Skinner

A continuum model of crack propagation is presented and discussed. We obtain steady state solutions with a self-consistently selected propagation velocity and shape of the crack, provided that elastodynamic and viscoelastic effects are…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 M. Fleck , D. Pilipenko , R. Spatschek , E. A. Brener

Elucidating the interplay of defect and stress at the microscopic level is a fundamental physical problem that has strong connection with materials science. Here, based on the two-dimensional crystal model, we show that the instability mode…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-19 Zhenwei Yao

To obtain the probability distribution of 2D crack patterns in mesoscopic regions of a disordered solid, the formalism of Paper I requires that a functional form associating the crack patterns (or states) to their formation energy be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Renaud Toussaint , Steven R. Pride