Classical shear cracks drive the onset of dry frictional motion

Ilya Svetlizky and Jay Fineberg ()
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Ilya Svetlizky: The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Jay Fineberg: The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

Nature, 2014, vol. 509, issue 7499, 205-208

Abstract: The transition between ‘static’ and ‘dynamic’ friction in a model system is found to be quantitatively captured by the same theoretical framework as is used to describe brittle fracture, but deviations from this correspondence are observed as the rupture velocity approaches the speed at which sound waves propagate along the interface.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature13202

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