Crackling versus Continuumlike Dynamics in Brittle Failure

Fluctuations of global energy release and crackling in nominally brittle heterogeneous fracture.

The temporal evolution of mechanical energy and spatially averaged crack speed are both monitored in slowly fracturing artificial rocks. Both signals display an irregular burstlike dynamics, with power-law distributed fluctuations spanning a broad range of scales. Yet, the elastic power released at each time step is proportional to the global velocity all along the process, which enables defini...

Brittle Failure Mechanism in Thermoelectric Skutterudite CoSb3

Skutterudites based on CoSb3 have high thermoelectric efficiency, but the low fracture strength is a serious consideration for commercial applications. To understand the origin of the brittleness in CoSb3, we examine the response along various shear and tensile deformations using density functional theory. We find that the Co−Sb bond dominates the ideal strength. Among all the shear and tensile...

Exactly solvable model of avalanches dynamics for Barkhausen crackling noise

We review the present state of understanding of the Barkhausen effect in soft ferromagnetic materials. Barkhausen noise (BN) is generated by the discontinuous motion of magnetic domains as they interact with impurities and defects. BN is one of the very many examples of crackling noise, arising in a variety of contexts with remarkably similar features, and occurring when a system responds in a ...

Multiscale failure modelling of quasi - brittle materials

Modeling of Brittle Failure and Comparisons

A numerical multiple crack interaction model was developed to simulate the failure process in brittle solids containing significant populations of flaws. The model, which is 2D, allows for the growth of microcracks on a regular array of potential crack sites. Individual cracks may be oriented vertically, horizontally or at 450 to the sample axes. Quasi-static equilibrium equations are expressed...