Supersonic rupture of rubber

DOI10.1016/J.JMPS.2005.10.002zbMATH Open1120.74788arXivcond-mat/0504613OpenAlexW1993256015MaRDI QIDQ2456863FDOQ2456863

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 29 October 2007

Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The rupture of rubber differs from conventional fracture. It is supersonic, and the speed is determined by strain levels ahead of the tip rather than total strain energy as for ordinary cracks. Dissipation plays a very important role in allowing the propagation of ruptures, and the back edges of ruptures must toughen as they contract, or the rupture is unstable. This article presents several levels of theoretical description of this phenomenon: first, a numerical procedure capable of incorporating large extensions, dynamics, and bond rupture; second, a simple continuum model that can be solved analytically, and which reproduces several features of elementary shock physics; and third, an analytically solvable discrete model that accurately reproduces numerical and experimental results, and explains the scaling laws that underly this new failure mode. Predictions for rupture speed compare well with experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504613

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zbMATH Keywords

shocksrubberFracture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Fracture and damage (74R99)

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