Higley, Michael; Belmonte, Andrew - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 28, pp. 6897-6912
We present a modeling framework for 1D fragmentation in brittle rods, in which the distribution of fragments is written explicitly in terms of the probability of breaks along the length of the rod. This work is motivated by the experimental observation of several preferred lengths in the...