| Title: | Evolution of chemically induced cracks in alkali feldspar: thermodynamic analysis |
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| Authors: | ID Abart, Rainer (Author)
ID Petrishcheva, Elena (Author)
ID Habler, Gerlinde (Author)
ID Sutter, Christoph (Author)
ID Fischer, Franz Dieter (Author)
ID Predan, Jožef (Author)
ID Kegl, Marko (Author)
ID Rammerstorfer, Franz G. (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Abart_Rainer_2022.pdf (2,79 MB)
MD5: 7A09D6C934EFF60EF404ED2B5D716A59
 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00269-022-01183-9
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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| Abstract: | A system of edge cracks was applied to polished (010) surfaces of K-rich gem-quality alkali feldspar by diffusion-mediated cation exchange between oriented feldspar plates and a Na-rich NaCl–KCl salt melt. The cation exchange produced a Na-rich layer at and beneath the specimen surface, and the associated strongly anisotropic lattice contraction lead to a tensile stress state at the specimen surface, which induced fracturing. Cation exchange along the newly formed crack flanks produced Na-enriched diffusion halos around the cracks, and the associated lattice contraction and tensile stress state caused continuous crack growth. The cracks nucleated with non-uniform spacing on the sample surface and quickly attained nearly uniform spacing below the surface by systematic turning along their early propagation paths. In places, conspicuous wavy cracks oscillating several times before attaining their final position between the neighboring cracks were produced. It is shown that the evolution of irregularly spaced towards regularly spaced cracks including the systematic turning and wavyness along the early propagation paths maximizes the rate of free energy dissipation in every evolutionary stage of the system. Maximization of the dissipation rate is suggested as a criterion for selection of the most probable evolution path for a system undergoing chemically induced diffusion mediated fracturing in an anisotropic homogeneous brittle material. |
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| Keywords: | chemically induced fracturing, alkali feldspar, crack spacing, wavy cracks, dissipation rate, thermodynamic extremal principle |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.05.2022 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | 15 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 49, art. no. 14 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-84738  |
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| UDC: | 539.3 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1432-2021 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 106807299 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s00269-022-01183-9 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 17.07.2023 |
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| Views: | 455 |
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| Downloads: | 36 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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