S. R. Savitski
J. D. Maynard
Dept. of Phys., Penn State Univ., University Park, PA 16802
Experimental measurements of fracture have been made using a wide bandwidth (10 MHz) transducer and a system with a relatively large bond size, with the result that one is able to observe individual bond breaking events. The data provide a direct test of ``fuse'' models [L. de Arcangelis, S. Redner, and H. J. Herrmann, J. Phys. Lett. (Paris) 46, L585 (1985)] and scaling theories of brittle fracture. Measurements have been made with uniform tensile stress and bending stress, with the latter corresponding to a phase transition in the presence of an external field. For samples of the same width, the observations are quite consistent, showing the effects of precursors, onset, progression, stress waves, crack arrest, and other interesting phenomena. A significant difference in precursors for the uniform and bending stress fields is observed, perhaps a result of the dimensionality of the maximum stress field. [Work supported by NSF Grant No. DMR-9306791 and by ONR.]
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