Goehring, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3858-7295, Clegg, W.J. and Routh, A.F., 2013. Plasticity and fracture in drying colloidal films. Physical Review Letters, 110, 024301. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
Cracks in drying colloidal dispersions are typically modeled by elastic fracture mechanics, which assumes that all strains are linear, elastic, and reversible. We tested this assumption in films of a hard latex, by intermittently blocking evaporation over a drying film, thereby relieving the film stress. Here we show that although the deformation around a crack tip has some features of brittle fracture, only 20%-30% of the crack opening is relieved when it is unloaded. Atomic force micrographs of crack tips also show evidence of plastic deformation, such as microcracks and particle rearrangement. Finally, we present a simple scaling argument showing that the yield stress of a drying colloidal film is generally comparable to its maximum capillary pressure, and thus that the plastic strain around a crack will normally be significant. This also suggests that a film’s fracture toughness may be increased by decreasing the interparticle adhesion.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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Publication Title: | Physical Review Letters | ||||
Creators: | Goehring, L., Clegg, W.J. and Routh, A.F. | ||||
Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||
Date: | 7 January 2013 | ||||
Volume: | 110 | ||||
ISSN: | 0031-9007 | ||||
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Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||
Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
Date Added: | 05 Sep 2016 07:49 | ||||
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2017 13:17 | ||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28369 |
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