Fig. 4: The properties of localized branching events at various crack driving forces.
From: Quenched disorder and instability control dynamic fracture in three dimensions
a The number of branches per unit planar area as a function of G/GB ≤ 1 (squares). The solid line corresponds to the prediction in Eq. (2), where σR = 0.233 is independently predicted (see Supplementary Information), and the overall amplitude is set to agree with the first data point. b The normalized weighted branch length 〈Δx〉w/R (see text for definition) vs. G/GB. The vertical dashed line marks G = GB. c The same as panel (a), but vs. v. The vertical dashed line corresponds to \({v}_{\lim }\), as in Fig. 2. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
