Displacement–length scaling of brittle faults in ductile shear

Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, and Ductile- and Brittle Faults of the New York City Area

Fieldand petrographic studies of the Paleozoic metamorphic rocks of New York City suggest a new interpretation of the stratigraphy and structure of the region and has delineated a number of ductileand brittle faults. The belt of rocks originally lumped together as the Manhattan Schist is now interpreted to consist of three mappable units structurally imbricated by two major ductile faults, the ...

Ductile or Partial Ductile Mode Machining of Brittle Materials

This paper reports ductile or partial ductile mode machining of silicon, glass and some advanced ceramics. Results are presented using scanning electron micrographs of the machined surfaces. Grinding and lapping operations using inexpensive machine tools could produce ductile streaks on surfaces of these brittle materials under good conditions. Manufacture of spherical glass lenses by the fract...

Engineering ductile fracture in brittle-matrix composites

This letter describes a newly discovered phenomenon: ductile fracture in cementitious materials. The brittle nature of materials such as concrete and ceramics has prompted the development of various approaches to enhance their fracture toughness. Fibre reinforcement has been the common focus in the toughening of the brittle materials. Two types of fracture have been observed to date in cementit...

Numerical Modeling of the Ductile-Brittle Transition

Numerical studies of the ductile-brittle transition are described that are based on incorporating physically based models of the competing fracture mechanisms into the material's constitutive relation. An elastic-viscoplastic constitutive relation for a porous plastic solid is used to model ductile fracture by the nucleation and subsequent growth of voids to coalescence. Cleavage is modeled in ...

Mechanics of low-angle extensional shear zones at the brittle-ductile transition