Forecasting catastrophic rupture in brittle rocks using precursory AE time series

JZ Zhang, XP Zhou - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An evidently precursory acoustic emission (AE) time series, characterized by a time‐
reversed Omori law, is registered prior to the unconfined catastrophic rupture of brittle …

Crackling noise and avalanches in minerals

EKH Salje, X Jiang - Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2021 - Springer
The non-smooth, jerky movements of microstructures under external forcing in minerals are
explained by avalanche theory in this review. External stress or internal deformations by …

On the predictability of localization instabilities of quasibrittle materials from accelerating rates of acoustic emission

JZ Zhang, WT Wu, XP Zhou - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Forecasting quasibrittle failure in geomaterials is of paramount importance in the physics of
fractures but rarely succeeds. To clarify the physics relating to the failure predictability in a …

Dislocation avalanches are like earthquakes on the micron scale

PD Ispánovity, D Ugi, G Péterffy, M Knapek… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Compression experiments on micron-scale specimens and acoustic emission (AE)
measurements on bulk samples revealed that the dislocation motion resembles a stick-slip …

Acoustic emission spectroscopy: Applications in geomaterials and related materials

EKH Salje, X Jiang, J Eckstein, L Wang - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a non-destructive testing technology with fast response and high resolution, acoustic
emission is widely used in material monitoring. The material deforms under stress and …

[HTML][HTML] Multibranches of acoustic emission as identifier for deformation mechanisms in additively manufactured 316l stainless steel

Y Chen, B Gou, X Xu, X Ding, J Sun, EKH Salje - Additive Manufacturing, 2023 - Elsevier
The multiple collapse mechanisms of complex materials produced by additive
manufacturing (AM) were identified by measurements of the acoustic emission (AE) of the …

What controls the presence and characteristics of aftershocks in rock fracture in the lab?

J Davidsen, T Goebel, G Kwiatek… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aftershock cascades are a characteristic feature of natural seismicity, but underlying
mechanisms remain debated. Here, we experimentally explore the presence or absence of …

The duration-energy-size enigma for acoustic emission

B Casals, KA Dahmen, B Gou, S Rooke, EKH Salje - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acoustic emission (AE) measurements of avalanches in different systems, such as domain
movements in ferroics or the collapse of voids in porous materials, cannot be compared with …

Acoustic emission from porous collapse and moving dislocations in granular Mg-Ho alloys under compression and tension

Y Chen, X Ding, D Fang, J Sun, EKH Salje - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract We identified heterogeneous Mg-Ho alloys as an ideal material to measure the
most extensive acoustic emission spectra available. Mg-Ho alloys are porous and show a …

Compressive failure as a critical transition: Experimental evidence and map** onto the universality class of depinning

CC Vu, D Amitrano, O Plé, J Weiss - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Acoustic emission (AE) measurements performed during the compressive loading of
concrete samples with three different microstructures (aggregate sizes and porosity) and …