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  • Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Statistical Mechanics

Background:

  • Crack propagation in heterogeneous materials exhibits complex dynamics.
  • Understanding fracture mechanics is crucial for material design and failure prediction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the avalanche and extreme statistics of crack front velocity.
  • To characterize the intermittent crackling dynamics and their underlying statistical properties.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental analysis of crack front propagation in polymethyl methacrylate under varying loading conditions.
  • High-resolution data acquisition to measure avalanche size, duration, and maximum amplitude.
  • Statistical analysis of time series data to identify power-law distributions.

Main Results:

  • Observed robust power-law distributions for avalanche size and duration.
  • Scaling exponents agree with critical depinning models for elastic strings in random media.
  • Identified limitations of current models in reproducing amplitude distributions, suggesting fat-tailed statistics.

Conclusions:

  • Experimental crackling dynamics show statistical similarities to critical depinning phenomena.
  • The study reveals limitations of existing models in fully capturing fracture statistics.
  • Further research is needed to understand the fat-tailed distributions observed in avalanche amplitudes.