Fractal fracture

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The propagation of a crack can be considered as a moving boundary problem. Linear analysis shows that under some circumstances instability occurs constituting the basis for fractal growth. If the conditions are anisotropic, the crack becomes self-affine. Experiments on breaking paper sheets under tensile stress are described and the obtained lines analysed from the fractal point of view.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)208-212
Number of pages5
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume191
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 1992
Externally publishedYes

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