Matteo Ciccotti 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 214006 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/42/21/214006
Matteo Ciccotti
Show affiliationsThe present review is intended to revisit the advances and debates in the comprehension of the mechanisms of subcritical crack propagation in silicate glasses almost a century after its initial developments. Glass has inspired the initial insights of Griffith into the origin of brittleness and the ensuing development of modern fracture mechanics. Yet, through the decades the real nature of the fundamental mechanisms of crack propagation in glass has escaped a clear comprehension which could gather general agreement on subtle problems such as the role of plasticity, the role of the glass composition, the environmental condition at the crack tip and its relation to the complex mechanisms of corrosion and leaching. The different processes are analysed here with a special focus on their relevant space and time scales in order to question their domain of action and their contribution in both the kinetic laws and the energetic aspects.
81.40.Np Fatigue, corrosion fatigue, embrittlement, cracking, fracture, and failure
62.20.F- Deformation and plasticity
81.40.Lm Deformation, plasticity, and creep
Issue 21 (7 November 2009)
Received 23 December 2008, in final form 31 March 2009
Published 22 October 2009
Matteo Ciccotti 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 214006
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