{
  "id": "cond-mat/0402461",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2004-02-18T19:19:21.000Z",
  "updated": "2004-02-18T19:19:21.000Z",
  "title": "Fragmentation of shells",
  "authors": [
    "Falk Wittel",
    "Ferenc Kun",
    "Hans J. Herrman",
    "Bernt H. Kroplin"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages in revtex format, 5 figures are included",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 035504 (2004)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.035504",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a theoretical and experimental study of the fragmentation of closed thin shells made of a disordered brittle material. Experiments were performed on brown and white hen egg-shells under two different loading conditions: impact with a hard wall and explosion by a combustible mixture both give rise to power law fragment size distributions. A three-dimensional discrete element model of shells is worked out. Based on simulations of the model we give evidence that power law fragment mass distributions arise due to an underlying phase transition which proved to be abrupt for explosion and continuous for impact. We demonstrate that the fragmentation of closed shells defines a new universality class of fragmentation phenomena.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2004-02-18T19:19:21.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "fragmentation",
      "law fragment mass distributions arise",
      "power law fragment mass distributions",
      "power law fragment size distributions",
      "three-dimensional discrete element model"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}