Seminars

PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)

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Stéphane Perrard
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Séminaire PMMH - Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California San Diego)

Vendredi 6 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1

Instabilities of nucleation and growth of a phase change defect

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

Abstract
A defect of phase change in density and moduli modeled as a self-similarly expanding Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion can nucleate and grow under a critical loading. The ellipsoid possesses the “lacuna” property with the particle velocity vanishing in the interior domain, which allows the constant stress Eshelby property and the inclusion to grow as a whole. The energetics for nucleation and growth are derived from the energy-momentum tensor and first principles. The solution obtains the flow of energies across a moving phase boundary at the balancing of which (which expresses the vanishing of the M integral) the interface presents no obstacle, and, at that critical loading, an arbitrarily small phase change defect nucleates and grows at constant potential energy. By breaking the symmetry it expands as a flattened Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion, which minimizes the losses to move the phase boundary, and the critical pressure is obtained for nucleation and growth of an inhomogeneous inclusion under high pressure. The solution explains the generation of a shear seismic source with Double Couple radiation in deep earthquakes and the generation of failure waves with a zone of micro-fractures (in tension) under compressive loading in lima glass. The methodology has wider applications to a range of physical phenomena, such as amorphization defects and defects in alloys, planetary impacts, etc.

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  • Séminaire PMMH - Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California San Diego)
    Vendredi 6 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Instabilities of nucleation and growth of a phase change defect
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 Abstract A defect of phase change in density and moduli modeled as a self-similarly expanding Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion can nucleate and grow under a critical loading. The ellipsoid possesses the (...)
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    Vendredi 29 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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    Vendredi 22 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Information for the speakers

The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.

Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)


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Practical information

Laboratoire : 01 40 79 45 22
Directeur : Damien Vandembroucq
Codirecteur : Philippe Petitjeans
Administratrice : Frédérique Auger (01 40 79 45 22)
Gestionnaire : Claudette Barez (01 40 79 58 53)
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