Dear Friends I send you a nice short paper with indications on how to "please" editors. Nothing new for senior people, but maybe useful to give to your young phd students.regards,
Dear colleagues As fellows in fracture mechanics, you may be interested in these comments on a recent very nice Nature paper by the group of Jay Fineberg, making clever experiments to measure nucleation of small cracks in frictional interfaces of PMMA, and their propagation velocity during nucleation and later rapid acceleration. Fineberg derives a threshold shear stress for nucleation which depends on the specimen width which seems new in fracture mechanics to me, but does not entirely convince me, see in the text. If you have any comments please let me know, I would be glad to discus
It turns out that friction coefficient 0.25 suggested as universal by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago has some universaility, as minimum friction coefficient for any granular material: it makes me proud as italian ;) I guess it would be interesting to show this experimental result also theoretically or numerically, any interest? [HTML]
Hello: I would be interested in any comment about this preprint on fibrillar viscoelastic adhesion, originally devised by Schargott Popov and Gorb, where we use for the first time not only the Schapery model for nucleation of cracks, but also the Shrimali and Lopez Pamies, which leads to quite stronger enhancement of adhesion (the limit is the square of the Schapery one), and pull-off with no real prior propagation phase. Propagation with Schapery nucleation criterion is found to be qualitatively similar to the Schapery and Persson-Brener propagation theories, except that the reference ve
In unidirectional sliding of rubber contacts on smooth hard surface it has been found that contact shrinks largely in longitudinal directions, and generally much less in the transverse direction, and two explanations have been suggested to explain this: one is the effect of mixed mode fracture mechanics in the presence of adhesion (with mode II reducing adhesion and mode III less clear), and another uniquely based on finite strain effects even for a simple material model as neo-Hookean hyperelastic material.
Considerable research has been conducted on shape of pillar ends for optimal adhesion. In experiments with elastomers it has been found that mushrooms-ended ones are superior to flat-ended ones, but early experiments have suggested an extremely strong scaling in strength with pillar radius (del Campo et al Langmuir;23 :10235-43, 2007). We discuss various theories and experimental results on scaling of strength, and in particular we elaborate recent experiments on single pillars with mushroom ends finding that the scaling on strength is much less surprising.
It is 50 years that people use models of viscoelastic fracture which assume the fracture energy in the process zone is independent on the crack speed. This has been assumed in the cohesive models by Knauss and Schapery and then by the dissipation theory of de gennes and Persson-Brener. Researchers like to use this model because it is simple. Unfortunately, it does not work, as we show in adhesion experiments in the recent JMPS paper attached. We obtain nice results for a broad band power law material, but these results only work at very low speeds.
We are in the time where big multi-centre projects with an ever-increasing number of scientists involved seem to multiply, and single scientist projects seem to die, apart from the happy island of ERC funding in Europe (probably NSF career funding in US?). I believe that with ERC funding and the direct call of ERC winners some European universities have taken a path of excellence to follow, while on multicentre big money projects they are less effective.
It is known that ahead of a crack subject to static or fatigue loading microcracking and damage makes the material soften (of smaller elastic modulus) but also its strength degrades (in composite materials, there are so called “wearout models” which associate strength reduction exactly to the reduction of modulus).
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I wonder if you could be interested in this idea of "Cancelling the effect of sharp notches or cracks with graded elastic modulus materials", particularly if you know who could help doing some experiments. Thanks for any comment, since this is a preprint it would be useful to discuss to make improvements. RegardsMike Cancelling the effect of sharp notches or cracks with graded elastic modulus materials
Prediction of friction is one of the nigthmares of tribologists! For elastomers, friction may be due to shear stresses or to dissipation and adhesion hysteresis. Here we consider the two effects in rolling/ sliding a viscoelastic cylinder. We find that at low speeds the numerical bem results confirm Persson/Brener theory for crack propagation at large Tabor parameter.
dear Imechanica friends here is an apparent paradox: for a sliding flat punch on a viscoelastic halfspace, friction is zero or not? Certainly there seems to be viscoelastic dissipation, but the pressure is also normal to dispacements, so am I missing something obvious here?
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I have been attracted recently by a theory from Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies which is based on experimental evidence obtained from Suo's group in Harvard in 2012 in a (limited, but significant) set of experiments on rubber. The theory assumes that the stretch to nucleating a crack is constant and independent on stretch rate. The theory is then built on that, to predict the increase of fracture energy with rate.
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In writing a review of models on fretting fatigue, I am looking at the effect of friction coefficient. Obviously, if friction is zero there is no fretting fatigue! This goes without saying.
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