Scratching as a fracture process: from butter to steel

We present results of a hybrid experimental and theoretical investigation of the fracture scaling in scratch tests and show that scratching is a fracture dominated process. Validated for paraffin wax, cement paste, Jurassic limestone and steel, we derive a model that provides a quantitative means to...

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Main Authors: Akono, Ange-Therese, Reis, Pedro Miguel, Ulm, Franz-Josef
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65375
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-828X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7089-8069
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-9769