TY - JOUR
T1 - Intrinsically anomalous roughness of admissible crack traces in concrete
AU - Balankin, Alexander S.
AU - Susarrey, Orlando
AU - Paredes, Rafael García
AU - Morales, Leobardo
AU - Samayoa, Didier
AU - López, José Alfredo
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - We study the roughness of postmortem cracks in concrete plates of different size. We find that the set of admissible crack paths exhibits an intrinsically anomalous roughness; nevertheless, any individual crack trace in concrete is essentially self-affine. We also find that both the local and the global amplitudes of crack traces are distributed according to a log-logistic distribution characterized by the same scaling exponent, whereas the mean-square width distribution is best fitted by the Pearson distribution, while the log-normal distribution also provides quite good adjustments and cannot be clearly rejected.
AB - We study the roughness of postmortem cracks in concrete plates of different size. We find that the set of admissible crack paths exhibits an intrinsically anomalous roughness; nevertheless, any individual crack trace in concrete is essentially self-affine. We also find that both the local and the global amplitudes of crack traces are distributed according to a log-logistic distribution characterized by the same scaling exponent, whereas the mean-square width distribution is best fitted by the Pearson distribution, while the log-normal distribution also provides quite good adjustments and cannot be clearly rejected.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.065101
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.065101
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:28844491823
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 72
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 6
M1 - 065101
ER -