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Delayed Fracture of an Inhomogeneous Soft Solid

Published:1998-04-10 Issue:5361 Volume:280 Page:265-267
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Bonn Daniel¹²,Kellay Hamid¹²,Prochnow Michaël¹²,Ben-Djemiaa Karim¹²,Meunier Jacques¹²

Affiliation:

1. D. Bonn, M. Prochnow, K. Ben-Djemiaa, J. Meunier, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.

2. H. Kellay, Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, Université Bordeaux 1, 351, Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France.

Abstract

The spontaneous fracture of polymer gels was studied. Contrary to crystalline solids, where fracture usually happens instantaneously at a well-defined breaking strength, the fracture of a polymer gel can occur with a delay. When a constant force was applied, the cracks nucleated and started to propagate after a delay that can be as long as 15 minutes, depending on the force. This phenomenon can be understood by calculating the activation energy for crack nucleation in arbitrary dimension and accounting for the inhomogeneity of the gel network in terms of its fractal dimension.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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