Abstract
Yuse and Sano [Nature (London) 362, 329 (1993); 362, 295 (1993)] have shown that a crack traveling in a thin glass plate under thermal stresses undergoes numerous instabilities. The primary instability is calculated using a theory of Cotterell and Rice [Int. J. Fracture 16, 155 (1980)] and is shown to reflect the velocity-dependent fracture energy of glass.
- Received 17 May 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.49.R51
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