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Dynamics and structure of interfacial crack fronts
Knut Jorgen Maloy, Renaud Toussaint, Jean Schmittbuhl
The propagation of an interfacial crack front through a weak plane of a transparent Plexiglas block has been studied experimentally. A stable crack in mode I was generated by loadi…
Gaussian Statistics of Fracture Surfaces
Stéphane Santucci, Joachim Mathiesen, Knut Jørgen Måløy +6
We analyse the statistical distribution function for the height fluctuations of brittle fracture surfaces using extensive experimental data sampled on widely different materials an…
Uphill solitary waves in granular flows
E. Martinez, C. Perez-Penichet, O. Sotolongo-Costa +4
We have experimentally observed a new phenomenon in the surface flow of a granular material. A heap is constructed by injecting sand between two vertical glass plates separated by…