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Title: New dimensions in fracture mechanics: fractals, scaling and deformation/damage metrics

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5407105

Scaling relations for various fracture processes occurring on characteristic length scales ranging from atomic to sample size are developed in terms of the noninteger dimensionality of certain geometric forms known as fractals. Changes in the fractal dimensionality as J/sub Ic/ is approached are interpreted as measures of deformation or damage. Other features of fractals also provide measures of deformation or damage localization.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
5407105
Report Number(s):
PNL-SA-12962; ON: DE86015532
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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