| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 38, Number 6, May III 1997
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 435 - 440 | |
| Section | Classical areas of phenomenology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00264-2 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Multi-fracture propagation in a directional crack growth experiment
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Received:
6
March
1997
Accepted:
11
April
1997
Simultaneous propagation of cracks in glass plates is studied in a directional crack growth experiment. The main result of this study is the existence of a periodic crack pattern propagating straight in a finite domain of crack spacings. Its stability range decreases with the system size, and leads to a single intrinsic selected crack spacing for large systems.
PACS: 46.30.Nz – Fracture mechanics, fatigue and cracks / 62.20.Mk – Fatigue, brittleness, fracture and cracks
© EDP Sciences, 1997
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