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Fracture and friction: Stick-slip motion.

E A Brener¹, S V Malinin, V I Marchenko

¹Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter

|May 3, 2005

Summary

This study reveals that stick-slip motion in elastic blocks transitions to sliding at a critical stress, akin to crack propagation. It also models slip patterns and estimates key parameters like wavelength based on driving velocity.

Area of Science:

Physics
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering

Background:

Stick-slip motion is a common phenomenon in systems involving friction between surfaces.
Understanding the transition from static friction (stick) to kinetic friction (slip) is crucial for predicting system behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the nonequilibrium transition in elastic block sliding under shear stress.
To investigate the relationship between critical stress, Griffith threshold, and crack propagation.
To model inhomogeneous and homogeneous sliding modes and their transitions.

Main Methods:

Solving the elastic problem for steady-state motion of periodic stick-slip patterns.
Deriving equations of motion for slip pulse tips and resticking ends.

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Utilizing a linear friction law within slip regions.

Main Results:

A discontinuous nonequilibrium transition from stick to sliding occurs at a critical stress, identified as the Griffith threshold.
An inhomogeneous sliding mode transitions to homogeneous sliding at a critical velocity related to the critical stress.
Steady-state analysis does not uniquely determine pattern parameters like primary wavelength, necessitating a "soft" selection mechanism.

Conclusions:

The study provides a framework for estimating internal parameters of stick-slip patterns, including crack velocities and wavelength, as functions of driving velocity.
The findings offer insights relevant to experimental observations of stick-slip phenomena.
The analogy to first-order phase transitions aids in understanding pattern selection in these systems.