The dynamics of crack front waves in 3D material failure

Abstract

Crack front waves (FWs) are dynamic objects that propagate along moving crack fronts in 3D materials. We study FW dynamics in the framework of a 3D phase-field framework that features a rate-dependent fracture energy $\Gamma (v)$ ($v$ is the crack propagation velocity) and intrinsic lengthscales, and quantitatively reproduces the high-speed oscillatory instability in the quasi-2D limit. We show that in-plane FWs feature a rather weak time dependence, with decay rate that increases with $d\Gamma (v)/dv>0$, and largely retain their properties upon FW-FW interactions, similarly to a related experimentally-observed solitonic behavior. Driving in-plane FWs into the nonlinear regime, we find that they propagate slower than predicted by a linear perturbation theory. Finally, by introducing small out-of-plane symmetry-breaking perturbations, coupled in- and out-of-plane FWs are excited, but the out-of-plane component decays under pure tensile loading. Yet, including a small anti-plane loading component gives rise to persistent coupled in- and out-of-plane FWs.

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