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Studies of Crack Pattern in Two Dimensional Media as Resulting From Ion Beam like or Freezing Destruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. Ausloos
Affiliation:
SUPRAS, Institut de Physique B5, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
N. Vandewalle
Affiliation:
SUPRAS, Institut de Physique B5, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
R. D‘Hulst
Affiliation:
Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
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Abstract

We have numerically studied various models for crack formation in the slow dynamical regime. Two different aspects are presented herein: (i) sputtering with reconstruction and (ii) internal destruction of a porous medium through the invasion of a secondary phase.

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Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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