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Fracture at Finite Temperature: a Statistical-Thermodynamic Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Robin L. Blumberg Selinger ,
Zhen-Gang Wang  and
William M. Gelbart
Robin L. Blumberg Selinger
Affiliation:
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024
Zhen-Gang Wang
Affiliation:
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024 Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
William M. Gelbart
Affiliation:
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024
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Abstract

We discuss both theory and simulation of fracture of ideal and almost ideal crystals at finite temperature. We propose that a solid under stress is in a metastable state, and that the onset of fracture may be characterized as the nucleation of the (stable) broken phase from the (metastable) intact phase. The role of atomic-scale defects is also discussed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 248: Symposium O – Complex Fluids , 1991 , 501
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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