Invited Session: Recent Advances in the Physics of Fractures

Presentations

• Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 2:30 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Sinan Keten

    • Northwestern University

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• Fast fracture in slow motion: Dynamic fracture and the effect of near-tip elastic nonlinearities in brittle gels

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:06 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jay Fineberg

    • The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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• Shapes formed by interacting cracks

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:42 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Karen Daniels

    • North Carolina State University
    • Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University

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• Fracture Statistics: Universality vs. Nucleation

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:18 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ashivni Shekhawat

    • Cornell University

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• Avalanches in crack front propagation

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:54 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Stefano Zapperi

    • CNR-IENI istituto per l'energetica e le interfasi
    • National Research Council of Italy, IENI-CNR, Milano, Italy
    • National Research Council of Italy CNR

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