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A steady-state frictional crack in a strip
Efim A. Brener, Eran Bouchbinder
The analogy between frictional cracks, propagating along interfaces in frictional contact, and ordinary cracks in bulk materials is important in various fields. We consider a stres…
Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress
Anna Pomyalov, Eran Bouchbinder
It was recently established that self-healing slip pulses under uniform prestress are unstable frictional rupture modes, i.e., they either slowly expand/decay with time t. Fu…
Size selection of crack front defects: Multiple fracture-plane interactions and intrinsic lengthscales
Meng Wang, Eran Bouchbinder, Jay Fineberg
Material failure is mediated by the propagation of cracks, which in realistic 3D materials typically involve multiple coexisting fracture planes. Multiple fracture-plane interactio…
Facet formation in slow three-dimensional fracture
Yuri Lubomirsky, Eran Bouchbinder
Cracks develop various surface patterns as they propagate in three-dimensional (3D) materials. Facet formation in nominally tensile (mode-I) fracture emerge in the slow, non-inerti…
A finite geometry, inertia assisted coarsening-to-complexity transition in homogeneous frictional systems
Thibault Roch, Efim A. Brener, Jean-François Molinari +1
The emergence of statistical complexity in frictional systems, manifested in broad distributions of various observables, is not yet understood. We study this problem in velocity-dr…
Quenched disorder and instability control dynamic fracture in three dimensions
Yuri Lubomirsky, Eran Bouchbinder
Materials failure in 3D still poses basic challenges. We study 3D brittle crack dynamics using a phase-field approach, where Gaussian quenched disorder in the fracture energy is in…