Abstract:
It is shown that fracture can be treated as a process occurring in the Finsler space. The use of the Finsler space allows one to construct a delaminated manifold whose characteristics are related to the defect structure of the medium. A method of determining the fractal dimension of fracture is developed using the concept of crack propagation along geodesics.
Citation:
I. A. Miklashevich, “Geometric characteristics of fracture-associated space and crack propagation in a material”, Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., 44:2 (2003), 123–131; J. Appl. Mech. Tech. Phys., 44:2 (2003), 255–261