The fracture of brittle amorphous materials is an especially challenging problem, because
the way a large object shatters is intimately tied to details of cohesion at microscopic scales …

▪ Abstract Atomistic aspects of dynamic fracture in a variety of brittle crystalline, amorphous,
nanophase, and nanocomposite materials are reviewed. Molecular dynamics (MD) …

Dynamic crack growth is analysed numerically for a plane strain block with an initial central
crack subject to tensile loading. The continuum is characterized by a material constitutive …

We introduce a phenomenological continuum model for the mode III dynamic fracture that is
based on the phase-field methodology used extensively to model interfacial pattern …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

A numerical model based on the discrete element is used to investigate the importance of
stress waves on the initiation and propagation of radial fractures during the dynamic loading …

We describe experiments on the dynamic fracture of the brittle plastic, PMMA. The results
suggest a view of the fracture process that is based on the existence and subsequent …

This paper demonstrates that rapid fracture of ideal brittle lattices naturally involves
phenomena long seen in experiment, but which have been hard to understand from a …

Crack propagation is the basic mechanism of materials failure. Experiments on dynamic
fracture in brittle amorphous materials have produced results that agree with theoretical …

The motion of a crack in dynamic fracture has been shown to be governed by a dynamical
instability causing oscillations in its velocity and structure on the fracture surface. We present …