Brittle fracture in a periodic structure with internal potential energy. Spontaneous crack propagation
Brittle fracture in a periodic structure with internal potential energy. Spontaneous crack propagation
Spontaneous brittle fracture is studied based on the recently introduced model (Mishuris and Slepyan, Brittle fracture in a periodic structure with internal potential energy. Proc. Roy. Soc. A, in press). A periodic structure is considered, where only the prospective crack-path layer is specified as a discrete set of alternating initially …