Publication Date:
2011-03-10
Description:
Author(s): Martin Hofmann, Hans-Achim Bahr, Hans-Jürgen Weiss, Ute Bahr, and Herbert Balke Regular columnar joints that originate from networklike crack patterns can be observed in basalt and, on a much smaller scale, in dried starch slurry. Here, the basalt columns are idealized by a periodic array of parallel cracks driven by steady-state cooling. By means of a bifurcation analysis, the... [Phys. Rev. E 83, 036104] Published Wed Mar 09, 2011
Keywords:
Interdisciplinary physics
Print ISSN:
1539-3755
Electronic ISSN:
1550-2376
Topics:
Physics
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