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Etienne Reyssat
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PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH – Antoine Sanner (ETH Zürich)
How random roughness arrests cracks in the contact of soft solids and the fracture of spring networks
Soft solids tend to stick : bringing two surfaces together lowers their surface energy, and separating them requires tensile forces. This simple energy balance, however, cannot explain why soft materials stick more strongly when we pull them apart than when they first come into contact—a phenomenon known as adhesion hysteresis. In the first part of this talk, I will show that adhesion hysteresis originates from the pinning of the contact perimeter by surface roughness. This mechanism connects adhesion hysteresis to broader phenomena such as contact angle hysteresis, fracture in heterogeneous materials, and the pinning of elastic lines.
In the second part, I shift from adhesive contacts to fracture in bulk disordered materials. Using numerical simulations of spring networks with randomly removed bonds, I will show that fracture toughness increases with the square root of the defect fraction. This counterintuitive effect highlights how disorder, rather than weakening, can reinforce materials by arresting cracks.
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Séminaire PMMH – Florence Bertails-Descoubes (INRIA, Grenoble) & Sébastien Neukirch (∂Alembert)
Vendredi 10 octobre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Marie Poulain-Zarcos (LFMA, Lyon)
Vendredi 17 octobre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Christina Kurzthaler (MPI Dresden)
Vendredi 7 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Romain Mari (LiPhy, Grenoble)
Vendredi 14 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Christiana Mavroyiakoumou (Oxford University)
Vendredi 21 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Paddy Royall (Gulliver, ESPCI Paris)
Vendredi 28 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Francesca Borghi (U. Milan)
Vendredi 5 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Cécile Callou (Muséum d'Histoire naturelle)
Vendredi 9 janvier 2026 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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.
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