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The statistical properties and the localization of fracture precursors on heteregeneous materials is studied by recording their acoustic emission as a function of the applied load. It's found that the microcrack cluster together as the load increases and the instantaneous acoustic energy has an invariant power law distribution. The integrated acoustic energy presents a critical divergency close to the failure load for the sample. These result support the idea that fracture can be viewed as a critical phenomenon. Finally a measure of the concentration of microcraks, which allows us to predict the failure load, is introduced. These properties are studied also when a periodic load is applied to the sample. It's found that the Kaiser effect is not strictly satisfied in heteregeneous materials.
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Received: 23 January 1998 / Revised: 20 April 1998 / Accepted: 17 June 1998
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Guarino, A., Garcimartín, A. & Ciliberto, S. An experimental test of the critical behaviour of fracture precursors. Eur. Phys. J. B 6, 13–24 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050521
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050521