2002/12/04 by Ko Okumura, Okumura, Ko
Chemical Engineering · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Elasticity and Wave Propagation #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0212102
arxiv created 2002/12/04 · openalex publication_date 2002/12/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider fractures in a stratified composite material with solid layers separated by thin slices of extremely soft matter. Viscoelastic effects associated with the soft layers are taken into account via the simplest model for weakly cross-linked polymers. We find that certain small cracks running along layers take a new "trumpet" shape quite different from previously known shapes.