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Acoustic emission from paper fracture

We report tensile failure experiments on paper sheets. The acoustic emission energy and the waiting times between acoustic events follow power-law distributions. This remains true while the strain rate is varied by more than 2 orders of magnitude. The energy statistics has the exponent beta approxim...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2002-10, Vol.89 (18), p.185503-185503, Article 185503
Main Authors: Salminen, L I, Tolvanen, A I, Alava, M J
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:We report tensile failure experiments on paper sheets. The acoustic emission energy and the waiting times between acoustic events follow power-law distributions. This remains true while the strain rate is varied by more than 2 orders of magnitude. The energy statistics has the exponent beta approximately 1.25+/-0.10 and the waiting times the exponent tau approximately 1.0+/-0.1, in particular, for the energy roughly independent of the strain rate. These results do not compare well with fracture models, for (brittle) disordered media, which as such exhibit criticality. One reason may be residual stresses, neglected in most theories.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.185503