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

The competition between elasticity and pinning of an interface in a fluctuating potential
energy landscape gives rise to characteristic self-affine roughening and a complex dynamic …

Three dimensional calculations of ductile fracture under mode I plane strain, small scale
yielding conditions are carried out using an elastic-viscoplastic constitutive relation for a …

We propose an algorithm to estimate the Hurst exponent of high-dimensional fractals, based
on a generalized high-dimensional variance around a moving average low-pass filter. As …

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 numerically study yielding in two-dimensional glasses which are generated with a very
wide range of stabilities by swap Monte Carlo simulations and then slowly deformed at zero …

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 …

In an effort to investigate the link between failure mechanisms and the geometry of fractures
of compacted grains materials, a detailed statistical analysis of the surfaces of fractured …

A short review of an algorithm, called Detrending Moving Average, to estimate the Hurst
exponent H of fractals with arbitrary dimension is presented. Therefore, it has the ability to …

In flat space, changing a system's velocity requires the presence of an external force.
However, an isolated nonrigid system can freely change its orientation due to the …