Roughening of Fracture Surfaces: the Role of Plastic Deformations
Abstract
Post mortem analysis of fracture surfaces of ductile and brittle materials on the μm-mm and the nm scales respectively, reveal self affine graphs with an anomalous scaling exponent ζ≈ 0.8. Attempts to use elasticity theory to explain this result failed, yielding exponent ζ≈ 0.5 up to logarithms. We show that when the cracks propagate via plastic void formations in front of the tip, followed by void coalescence, the voids positions are positively correlated to yield exponents higher than 0.5.
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