Serrated fracture growth with branching
Abstract
A model of fracture which grow irregular serrated cracks with branching is investigated. This model involves a sequence of bars breaking in a frame. Two types of stochastic network are examined: the Delaunay (or Voronoi) triangulation and the corresponding tesselation. Results using these networks are compared to results using regular networks with both uniform and randomly distributed properties.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Numerical methods in engineering
Rock Mechanics and Modeling
Theoretical and Computational Physics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- CRC Press eBooks
- Pages
- 351–358
- Publication date
- 13 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter