%0 Journal Article
%T THE FRACTAL BEHAVIOUR OF CRACK PROPAGATION IN BRITTLE MATERIALS<br>
%A DING HONG-ZHI
%A ZHAO RU-BAO
%A XING XIU-SAN
%A <br>
%J 中国物理 B
%D 1996
%I 
%X In this paper we try to show how a reasonable equation for crack propagation in brittle materials naturally leads to self-affine or statistically self-similar failure structures. We argue that the fractal behaviours of crack propagation in brittle mate-rials are in essence determined by the scale-invariance of the Fokker-Planck equation. This approach provides a good illustration for understanding the microscopic origin of fractal behaviour in real materials.
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