Falling through the cracks: energy storage along segmented brittle crack fronts
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| author | Wei, Xinyue Kolinski, John M. |
| author_facet | Wei, Xinyue Kolinski, John M. |
| contents | During brittle crack propagation, a smooth crack front curve frequently becomes disjoint, generating a stepped crack and a material ligament that unites the newly formed crack fronts. These universal features fundamentally alter the singular field structure and stability of propagating cracks; however, a quantitative analysis of their mechanics is lacking. Here, we perform in-situ 3D measurements to resolve the deformation field around stepped cracks, and crucially, within the ligament feature. The 3D kinematic data are obtained by scanning a thin laser sheet through the brittle hydrogel samples, while recording the scattered intensity from the embedded tracer particles. We find that the ligament concentrates the strain energy density, and moreover, the apparent fracture energy increases proportionally to the strain energy within the ligament. |
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| spellingShingle | Falling through the cracks: energy storage along segmented brittle crack fronts Wei, Xinyue Kolinski, John M. Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science During brittle crack propagation, a smooth crack front curve frequently becomes disjoint, generating a stepped crack and a material ligament that unites the newly formed crack fronts. These universal features fundamentally alter the singular field structure and stability of propagating cracks; however, a quantitative analysis of their mechanics is lacking. Here, we perform in-situ 3D measurements to resolve the deformation field around stepped cracks, and crucially, within the ligament feature. The 3D kinematic data are obtained by scanning a thin laser sheet through the brittle hydrogel samples, while recording the scattered intensity from the embedded tracer particles. We find that the ligament concentrates the strain energy density, and moreover, the apparent fracture energy increases proportionally to the strain energy within the ligament. |
| title | Falling through the cracks: energy storage along segmented brittle crack fronts |
| topic | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19406 |