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Failure time and microcrack nucleation

A. Guarino, S. Ciliberto, A. Garcimartin

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9905161

Abstract

The failure time of samples of heterogeneous materials (wood, fiberglass) is studied as a function of the applied stress. It is shown that in these materials the failure time is predicted with a good accuracy by a model of microcrack nucleation proposed by Pomeau. It is also shown that the crack growth process presents critical features when the failure time is approached.

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