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Aftershock sequences and seismic-like organization of acoustic events produced by a single propagating crack

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  • Jonathan Barés

    (Université Paris-Saclay
    Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil Université de Montpellier CNRS)

  • Alizée Dubois

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Lamine Hattali

    (Université Paris-Saclay
    Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Davy Dalmas

    (Ecole Centrale de Lyon)

  • Daniel Bonamy

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

Abstract

Brittle fractures of inhomogeneous materials like rocks, concrete, or ceramics are of two types: Nominally brittle and driven by the propagation of a single dominant crack or quasi-brittle and resulting from the accumulation of many microcracks. The latter goes along with acoustic noise, whose analysis has revealed that events form aftershock sequences obeying characteristic laws reminiscent of those in seismology. Yet, their origin lacks explanation. Here we show that such a statistical organization is not only specific to the multi-cracking situations of quasi-brittle failure and seismology, but also rules the acoustic events produced by a propagating crack. This simpler situation has permitted us to relate these laws to the overall scale-free distribution of inter-event time and energy and to uncover their selection by the crack speed. These results provide a comprehensive picture of how acoustic events are organized upon material failure in the most fundamental of fracture states: single propagating cracks.

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  • Jonathan Barés & Alizée Dubois & Lamine Hattali & Davy Dalmas & Daniel Bonamy, 2018. "Aftershock sequences and seismic-like organization of acoustic events produced by a single propagating crack," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-03559-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03559-4
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    1. Q. Xiong & M. R. Brudzinski & D. Gossett & Q. Lin & J. C. Hampton, 2023. "Seismic magnitude clustering is prevalent in field and laboratory catalogs," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Spasojević, Djordje & Janićević, Sanja, 2023. "Disordered ferromagnetic systems with stochastic driving," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).

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