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Local waiting time fluctuations along a randomly pinned crack front
Knut Jørgen Måløy, Stéphane Santucci, Jean Schmittbuhl +1
The propagation of an interfacial crack along a heterogeneous weak plane of a transparent Plexiglas block is followed using a high resolution fast camera. We show that the fracture…
Using synchrotron X-ray scattering to study the diffusion of water in a weakly-hydrated clay sample
Y. Meheust, B. Sandnes, G. Lovoll +6
We study the diffusion of water in weakly-hydrated samples of the smectite clay Na-fluorohectorite. The quasi one-dimensional samples are dry compounds of nano-layered particles co…
Quasiperiodic events in an earthquake model
O. Ramos, E. Altshuler, K. J. Maloy
We introduce a modification of the OFC earthquake model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1244 (1992)] in order to improve resemblance with the Burridge and Knopoff mechanical model and with p…
Intercalation-enhanced electric polarization and chain formation of nano-layered particles
J. O. Fossum, Y. Meheust, K. P. S. Parmar +3
Microscopy observations show that suspensions of synthetic and natural nano-layered smectite clay particles submitted to a strong external electric field undergo a fast and extende…