title: Thermoelastic mechanism for logarithmic slow dynamics and memory in elastic wave interactions with individual cracks.
abstract: Logarithmic-in-time slow dynamics has been found for individual cracks in a solid. Furthermore, this phenomenon is observed during both the crack acoustic conditioning and the subsequent relaxation. A thermoelastic mechanism is suggested which relates the log-time behavior to the essentially 2D character of the heating and cooling of the crack perimeter and inner contacts. Nonlinear perturbation of the contacts by a stronger (pump) wave causes either softening or hardening of the sample, and induces either additional absorption or transparency for a weaker (probe) acoustic wave depending on frequency of the latter.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics RAS, 46 Uljanova Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zaitsev
authors.forename: Vitalyi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gusev
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Castagnede