While there exists a unified theoretical framework–Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics–to
describe the failure of homogeneous materials, understanding and modeling the …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

Paper is a material known to everybody. It has a network structure consisting of wood fibres
that can be mimicked by cooking a portion of spaghetti and pouring it on a plate, to form a …

Stress enhancement in the vicinity of brittle cracks makes the macro-scale failure properties
extremely sensitive to the micro-scale material disorder. Therefore,(i) fracturing systems …

We analyze the statistical distribution function for the height fluctuations of brittle fracture
surfaces using extensive experimental data sampled on widely different materials and …

We analyze the scaling of the crack roughness and of avalanche precursors in the two-
dimensional random fuse model by numerical simulations, employing large system sizes …

We study the behavior of an ink-paper interface in a spontaneous imbibition experiment as a
function of time and paper orientation. To characterize the interface roughness the growth β …

A better physical understanding of mesoscale and microscale mechanisms behind
deformation and failure of paperboard material is important to optimize industrial packaging …

Fracture paths in quasi-two-dimensional (2D) media (eg, thin layers of materials or paper)
are analyzed as self-affine graphs h (x) of height h as a function of length x. We show that …

The structural changes that are induced by the initiation and the propagation of a crack in a
low-density paper (LDP) were studied using single edge-notched fracture tests that were …