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Fracture roughness and physical implications

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Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter

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A large number of studies of fracture surface topography have revealed that for a wide class of materials, and fracture conditions, the surfaces exhibit a self-affine character. Moreover, the roughness exponent which characterizes this self-affinity appears to be universal. In this paper, we analyse some physical consequences of this property. The examples we consider concern the permeability of a crack, a percolation transition through long-range correlated surfaces, the elastic contact between two rough surfaces, and a simple model of dynamic friction.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Heterogenes, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

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Roux, S. (1994). Fracture roughness and physical implications. In: Bardhan, K.K., Chakrabarti, B.K., Hansen, A. (eds) Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58652-0_40

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