The role of rigidity in controlling material failure

Michelle M. Driscoll; Bryan Gin Ge Chen; Thomas H. Beuman; Stephan Ulrich; Sidney R. Nagel; Vincenzo Vitelli

doi:10.1073/pnas.1501169113

The role of rigidity in controlling material failure

Michelle M. Driscoll, Bryan Gin Ge Chen, Thomas H. Beuman, Stephan Ulrich, Sidney R. Nagel, Vincenzo Vitelli^*

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Abstract

We investigate how material rigidity acts as a key control parameter for the failure of solids under stress. In both experiments and simulations, we demonstrate that material failure can be continuously tuned by varying the underlying rigidity of the material while holding the amount of disorder constant. As the rigidity transition is approached, failure due to the application of uniaxial stress evolves from brittle cracking to system-spanning diffuse breaking. This evolution in failure behavior can be parameterized by the width of the crack. As a system becomes more and more floppy, this crack width increases until it saturates at the system size. Thus, the spatial extent of the failure zone can be used as a direct probe for material rigidity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	10813-10817
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	113
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501169113
State	Published - Sep 27 2016

Keywords

Cracks
Failure
Glasses
Jamming
Metamaterials

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