Creep dynamics of viscoelastic interfaces

The movement of a purely elastic interface driven on a disordered energy potential is characterized by a depinning transition: when the pulling force σ is larger than some critical value o1 the system is in a flowing regime and moves at a finite velocity. On the other hand, if o < o1 the interfac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Jagla, Eduardo Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/24543
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/24543
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Creep
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Sumario:The movement of a purely elastic interface driven on a disordered energy potential is characterized by a depinning transition: when the pulling force σ is larger than some critical value o1 the system is in a flowing regime and moves at a finite velocity. On the other hand, if o < o1 the interface remains pinned and its velocity is zero. We show that in the case of a one-dimensional interface, the inclusion of viscoelastic relaxation produces the appearance of an intervening regime between the pinned and the flowing phases in a well-defined stress interval o0 < o < o1, in which the interface evolves through a sequence of avalanches that give rise to a creep process. As o - o0+ the creep velocity vanishes as a power law. As o < o0+ the creep velocity increases as a power law due to the increase of the typical size of the avalanches. The present observations may serve to improve the understanding of fatigue failure mechanisms.