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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.055501
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- Academy of Finland through the Center of Excellence program [251748]
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Wood is a multiscale material exhibiting a complex viscoplastic response. We study avalanches in small wood samples in compression. Woodquakes measured by acoustic emission are surprisingly similar to earthquakes and crackling noise in rocks and laboratory tests on brittle materials. Both the distributions of event energies and of waiting (silent) times follow power laws. The stress-strain response exhibits clear signatures of localization of deformation to weak spots or softwood layers, as identified using digital image correlation. Even though material structure-dependent localization takes place, the avalanche behavior remains scale-free.
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