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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2002

Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon: III. Analysis of the localization transition

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The properties of the Hamiltonian developed in Paper II are studied showing that at a particular strain level a ``localization'' phase transition occurs characterized by the emergence of conjugate bands of coherently oriented cracks. The functional integration that yields the partition function is then performed analytically using an approximation that employs only a subset of states in the functional neighborhood surrounding the most probable states. Such integration establishes the free energy of the system, and upon taking the derivatives of the free energy, the localization transition is shown to be continuous and to be distinct from peak stress. When the bulk modulus of the grain material is large, localization always occurs in the softening regime following peak stress, while for sufficiently small bulk moduli and at sufficiently low confining pressure, the localization occurs in the hardening regime prior to peak stress. In the approach to localization, the stress-strain relation for the whole rock remains analytic, as is observed both in experimental data and in simpler models. The correlation function of the crack fields is also obtained. It has a correlation length characterizing the aspect ratio of the crack clusters that diverges as (\xi \sim (\ep_{c}-\ep)^{-2}) at localization.
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Renaud Toussaint, Steven R Pride. Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon: III. Analysis of the localization transition. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2002, 66 (3), pp.036137. ⟨10.1103/physreve.66.036137⟩. ⟨hal-00110574⟩
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