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Published April 21, 2011 | Published
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Evidence of Deep Water Penetration in Silica during Stress Corrosion Fracture

Abstract

We measure the thickness of the heavy water layer trapped under the stress corrosion fracture surface of silica using neutron reflectivity experiments. We show that the penetration depth is 65–85 Å, suggesting the presence of a damaged zone of ~100 Å extending ahead of the crack tip during its propagation. This estimate of the size of the damaged zone is compatible with other recent results.

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© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 28 November 2010; published 21 April 2011. Part of this work has been done within the CORCOSIL ANR project. The authors thank M. Ciccotti, G. Pallares, K. Ravi-Chandar, and M. Tomozawa for very interesting discussions.

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