Fracture Surfaces as Multiscaling Graphs
Fracture Surfaces as Multiscaling Graphs
Fracture paths in quasi-two-dimensional (2D) media (e.g., 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 these are multiscaling, in the sense that nth order moments of the height fluctuations across any distance l scale …