Dynamic crack growth along heterogeneous planar interfaces: interaction with unidimensional strips

Alizée Dubois (1, 2) , Daniel Bonamy (1)

1 SPHYNX - Systèmes Physiques Hors-équilibre, hYdrodynamique, éNergie et compleXes
2 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

We examine theoretically and numerically fast propagation of a tensile crack along unidimensional strips with periodically evolving toughness. In such dynamic fracture regimes, crack front waves form and transport front disturbances along the crack edge at speed less than the Rayleigh wave speed and depending on the crack speed. In this configuration, standing front waves dictate the spatio-temporal evolution of the local crack front speed, which takes a specific scaling form. Analytical examination of both the short-time and long-time limits of the problem reveals the parameter dependency with strip wavelength, toughness contrast and overall fracture speed. Implications and generalization to unidimensional strips of arbitrary shape are lastly discussed.

Domaines: Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]; Vibrations [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Alizée Dubois, Daniel Bonamy. Dynamic crack growth along heterogeneous planar interfaces: interaction with unidimensional strips. Physical Review E , 2021, 103 (1), pp.013004. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.103.013004⟩. ⟨hal-03087017v2⟩