Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104330
Keywords
Friction; Fracture; Bimaterial rupture; Earthquake dynamics
Funding
- International Research Project Non-Equilibrium Physics of Complex Systems'' (IRP-PhyComSys, France-Israel)
- Laboratoire International Associe Matiere: Structure et Dynamique'' (LIA-MSD, France-Chile)
- Lady Davis Fellowship Trust
- Israel Science Foundation [840/19]
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The rupture dynamics of the interface joining two materials under frictional contact is significantly influenced by the mechanical properties of the bulk materials that bound the interface. When the materials are similar, Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics quantitatively describe the rupture, but when the elastic properties differ, bimaterial coupling effects come into play. The study shows that at low rupture velocities, bimaterial cracks described by LEFM govern the interface rupture, but as velocities increase, bimaterial cracks become unstable at a subsonic critical rupture velocity.
The rupture of the interface joining two materials under frictional contact controls their macroscopic sliding. Interface rupture dynamics depend markedly on the mechanical properties of the bulk materials that bound the frictional interface. When the materials are similar, recent experimental and theoretical work has shown that shear cracks described by Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM) quantitatively describe the rupture of frictional interfaces. When the elastic properties of the two materials are dissimilar, many new effects take place that result from bimaterial coupling: the normal stress at the interface is elastodynamically coupled to local slip rates. At low rupture velocities, bimaterial coupling is not very significant and interface rupture is governed by 'bimaterial cracks' that are described well by LEFM. As rupture velocities increase, we experimentally and theoretically show how bimaterial cracks become unstable at a subsonic critical rupture velocity,c(T). When the rupture direction opposes the direction of applied shear in the softer material, we show that c(T) is the subsonic limiting velocity. When ruptures propagate in the direction of applied shear in the softer material, we demonstrate that c(T). provides an explanation for how and when slip pulses (new rupture modes characterized by spatially localized slip) are generated.
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