Nature Communications (May 2021)

Explosive fragmentation of Prince Rupert’s drops leads to well-defined fragment sizes

  • Stefan Kooij,
  • Gerard van Dalen,
  • Jean-François Molinari,
  • Daniel Bonn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22595-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Fragmentation of breaking glass as a brittle solid is a problem of equal practical and theoretical importance. Kooij et al. demonstrate that the fragment size distribution can surprisingly be both, either power-law or exponential, depending on how a particular specimen is broken.