Quantifying chemomechanical weakening in muscovite mica with a simple micromechanical model

Jordan J. Sickle, William M. Mook, Frank W. DelRio, Anastasia G. Ilgen, Wendelin J. Wright and Karin A. Dahmen ()
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Jordan J. Sickle: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William M. Mook: Sandia National Laboratories
Frank W. DelRio: Sandia National Laboratories
Anastasia G. Ilgen: Sandia National Laboratories
Wendelin J. Wright: Bucknell University
Karin A. Dahmen: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract In response to gradual nanoindentation, the surface of muscovite mica deforms by sudden stochastic nanometer-scale displacement bursts. Here, the statistics of these displacement events are interpreted using a statistical model previously used to model earthquakes to understand how chemically reactive environments alter the surface properties of this material. We show that the statistics of nanoindentation displacement bursts in muscovite mica are tuned by chemomechanical weakening in a manner similar to how the statistics of model events are tuned by a mechanical weakening parameter that describes how easily system-spanning cracks can be nucleated. Because the predictions of this model are independent of any surface defects or structural details, these results suggest this simple model can be universally used to describe chemomechanical weakening in many systems prone to slip avalanches on a wide range of spatio-temporal scales.

Date: 2024
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