Abstract
Scaling properties of mortar crack surfaces are studied from mode I fracture specimens of six different sizes. Fracture surfaces initiated from a straight notch exhibit an anomalous dynamic scaling which involves two independent roughness indices: the universal local roughness exponent ζloc ≈ 0.8 and the global roughness exponent, estimated to ζ ≃ 1.35. We show that there exists a linear relationship between the specimen size and the maximum self-affine correlation length inducing a size effect on the roughness magnitude at saturation and this especially for the smallest length scales. Finally, we argue that anomalous roughening could be an inheritance of the changes in long range elastic interactions which take place in the fracture process zone of quasibrittle materials.
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