Abstract (may include machine translation)
The propagation of a crack in an isotropic elastic medium is treated as a moving boundary problem. Linear stability analysis shows that for the stretched membrane with a central, initially circular hole all modes are stable. On the other hand all modes are unstable for a two-dimensional arrangement where the crack is induced by pressure in a central hole.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 227-235 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
| Volume | 178 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 15 Oct 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |