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Dissipative Visco-plastic Deformation in Dynamic Fracture: Tip Blunting and Velocity Selection

Eran Bouchbinder, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0604050

Abstract

Dynamic fracture in a wide class of materials reveals "fracture energy" Γ much larger than the expected nominal surface energy due to the formation of two fresh surfaces. Moreover, the fracture energy depends on the crack velocity, Γ=Γ(v). We show that a simple dynamical theory of visco-plasticity coupled to asymptotic pure linear-elasticity provides a possible explanation to the above phenomena. The theory predicts tip blunting characterized by a dynamically determined crack tip radius of curvature. In addition, we demonstrate velocity selection for cracks in fixed-grip strip geometry accompanied by the identification of Γ and its velocity dependence.

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