Publications

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

E. Berthier, L. Ponson and C. Dascalu, ‘Quasi-brittle fracture of heterogeneous materials: A nonlocal damage model’, Proc. Mat. Sci. 3, 1878 - 1883, Trondheim, Norway (2014).

M. Vasoya, V. Lazarus and L. Ponson, ‘Crack front fingering during planar crack propagation in highly heterogeneous toughness field’, Proc. Mat. Sci. 3, 242 - 2147, Trondheim, Norway (2014).

Y. Cao and L. Ponson, ‘Patterns of extreme events on experimental fracture surfaces: The subtile organization of the roughness of cracks’, CFM, Bordeaux, France (2013).

E. Berthier, C. Dascalu and L. Ponson, ‘Un modèle non-local intégral dépendant du temps: Application à un réseau de fibres’, CFM, Bordeaux, France (2013).

Y. Cao, S. Vernède and L. Ponson, ‘Non-Gaussian statistics and extreme events on experimental fracture surfaces’, Int. Conf. Frac., Beijing, China (2013).

M. Vasoya, V. Lazarus and L. Ponson, ‘Propagation of tensile planar cracks in highly heterogeneous media: A numerical study’, Int. Conf. Frac., Beijing, China (2013).

L. Hattali, J. Bares, L. Ponson and D. Bonamy, ‘Low velocity fracture patterns in brittle material: a newly evidenced mechanical instability’, Mat. Sci. Forum 706, 920-924, Thermec Conf., Quebec, Canada (2012).

Z. Shabir, L. Ponson and A. Simone, ‘Sefl-affine scaling properties of simulated intergranular cracks in brittle polycrystal’, Proc. Eur. Conf. on Extended Finite Element, Cardiff, UK (2011).

F. Lechenault, C.L. Rountree, F. Cousin, J.P. Bouchaud, L. Ponson and E. Bouchaud, ‘Damage of silicate glasses during stress corrosion’, J. Phys. Conf. Series 319, 012005, CMDS Conf., Kolkata, India (2011).

L. Ponson and G. Cordeiro, ‘Depinning Transition in Material Failure’, Proc. Int. Conf. Fracture, Ottawa, Canada (2009).

D. Bonamy, S. Santucci, L. Ponson and K.J. Maloy, ‘Crack growth in brittle heterogeneous materials’, Proc. Int. Conf. Fracture, Ottawa, Canada (2009).

M. Ciccotti, G. Pallares, L. Ponson, A. Grimaldi and M. Georges, ‘Mechanical effect of capillary forces in the crack tip of a DCDC specimen’, Proc. Int. Conf. Frac., Ottawa, Canada (2009).

S. Morel, D. Bonamy, L. Ponson and E. Bouchaud, ‘Transient damage spreading and anomalous scaling in mortar crack surfaces’, Proc. Int. Conf. Fracture, Ottawa, Canada (2009).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy, E. Bouchaud, G. Cordeiro, R.D. Toledo and E.M.R. Fairbairn, ‘Path and dynamics of a crack propagating in a disordered material under mode I loading’, Proc. Int. Conf. Frac. Mech. Concrete, Catania, Italy, p. 63-67, 1 (2007).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy, H. Auradou, E. Bouchaud, C. Guillot, E. Fairbairn and J.P. Hulin, ‘Fracture and damage of nanophase and ceramics’, Proc. Int. Conf. Frac., Torino, Italy (2005).

I. Ferreira, J. Gonçalves, E. Fairbairn, R. Filho, L. Ponson and F.L.B. Ribeiro, ‘Ensaio brasileiro: caracterizaçao estatistica de duas séries experimentais em argamassas’, Proc. XXXI Jornadas Sud- Americanas de Ingeneria Estructural, Mendoza, Argentina (2004).

Publication in national journal

P. Jean, H. Bellenger, P. Burban, L. Ponson and P. Evesque, ‘Phase transition or Maxwell’s demon in granular gas?’, Poudres & grains, 13, p. 27-39 (2002).

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in review

L. Ponson, A. Srivastava, S. Osovski, E. Bouchaud, V. Tveergard and A. Needleman, ‘Correlating toughness and roughness in ductile fracture’, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett..

L. Konate, D. Kondo and L. Ponson, 'Crack roughness predictions in 2D disordered brittle materials', submitted to Int. J. Solids Struct..

E. Berthier and L. Ponson, 'Damage spreading in quasi-brittle disordered solids: II. Statistics of precursors to failure', submitted to J. Mech. Phys. Solids.

A. V. Vasudevan, T. M. Grabois, G. C. Cordeiro, R. D. Toledo Filho and L. Ponson, 'A new fracture test methodology for the accurate characterization of brittle fracture properties', submitted to Int. J. Solids Struct.

Book in preparation

L. Ponson and E. Bouchaud, 'Fracture mechanics of heterogeneous materials: A statistical approach', to be published by Wiley.

International patents

S. Vernède and L. Ponson, ‘Method for characterizing the cracking mechanism of a material from the fracture surface thereof’, French patent1459525 and US patent20170261414 (2014).

S. Xia, L. Ponson, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, ’Adhesive tape with adhesion enhancement and directionality by material, structural and adhesive heterogeneity’, International patent 079322 and US patent 0159241 (2011).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy and E. Bouchaud, ‘Method and system to determine the path followed by at least one crack from one or several fracture surfaces created by the said crack(s)’, International patent WO 2007/048934 and European patent EP1941257 (2007).

Publications in international refereed journals

2019

V. Dansereau, V. Démery, E. Berthier, J. Weiss and L. Ponson, 'Collective damage growth controls fault orientation in quasi-brittle compressive failure', Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press).

J. B. Leblond, A. Karma, L. Ponson and A. Vasudevan, 'Configurational stability of a crack propagating in a material with mode-dependent fracture energy - Part I: Mixed-mode I+III', J. Mech. Phys. Solids doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.02.007.

L. Ponson, Z. Shabir, M. Abdulmajid, E. Van der Giessen and A. Simone, 'A unified scenario for the morphology of crack paths in two-dimensional disordered solids', Phys. Rev. E (in press).

2018

J. Chopin, A. Bhaskar, J. Atharv and L. Ponson, 'Depinning dynamics of crack fronts', Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235501 (2018).

T. Grabois, J. Neggers, L. Ponson, F. Hild and R. Toledo, 'On the validation of integrated DIC with tapered double cantilever beam tests', Eng. Frac. Mech. 191, 311-323 (2018).

2017

E. Berthier, V. Démery and L. Ponson, 'Damage spreading in quasi-brittle disordered solids: I. Localization and failure', J. Mech. Phys. Solids 102, 101-124 (2017).

L. Ponson and N. Pindra, 'Crack propagation through disordered materials as a depinning transition: A critical test of the theory', Phys. Rev. E 95, 053004 (2017).

2016

L. Ponson, 'Statistical aspects in crack growth phenomena: How the fluctuations reveal the failure mechanisms', invited review article for the 50th years anniversary of Int. J. Frac. 201, 11-27 (2016).

M. Vasoya, V. Lazarus and L. Ponson, 'Bridging micro to macroscale fracture properties in highly heterogeneous brittle solids: weak pinning versus fingering', J. Mech. Phys. Solids95, 755-773 (2016).

M. Vasoya, A. B. Unni, J.-B. Leblond, V. Lazarus and L. Ponson, 'Finite size and non-linear effects during crack pinning by heterogeneities: An analytical and experimental study', J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 89, 211-230 (2016).

J. B. Leblond and L. Ponson, 'Out-of-plane deviation of a mode I+III crack encountering a tougher obstacle', C. R. Mecanique, 344, 521-531 (2016).

2015

M. Vasoya, A. B. Unni, J.-B. Leblond, V. Lazarus and L. Ponson, ‘Finite size and non-linear effects during crack pinning by heterogeneities: An analytical and experimental study’, J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 89, 211-230 (2016) bouge en 2016 avec le film.

S. Xia, L. Ponson, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, ‘Adhesion of heterogeneous thin films. II: Adhesive heterogeneity’, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 83, 88-103 (2015).

G. Pallares, M. George, L. Ponson, S. Chapuliot, S. Roux and M. Ciccotti, ‘Multiscale investigation of stress-corrosion crack propagation mechanisms in oxide glasses’, Corr. Reviews, 33, 501-514 (2015).

S. Vernède, L. Ponson and J. P. Bouchaud, ‘Turbulent fracture surfaces: A footprint of damage percolation?’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 215501 (2015).

S. Osovski, A. Srivastava, L. Ponson, E. Bouchaud, V. Tvergaard and A. Needleman, ‘The effect of loading rate on ductile fracture toughness and fracture surface roughness’, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 76, 20-46 (2015).

J. Jeong, H. Ramezani, P. Sardini, D. Kondo, L. Ponson and M. Siitari-Kauppi, 'Porous media modeling and micro-structurally motivated material moduli determination via the micro-dilatation theory', Eur. Phys. J. ST 224, 1805-1816 (2015).

2014

A. Leonard, L. Ponson and C. Daraio, ‘Exponential stress mitigation in structured granular composites’, Extreme Mech. Lett. 1, 23-28 (2014). Selected for the cover of the first issue of the journal.

A. Leonard, L. Ponson and C. Daraio, ‘Wave mitigation in ordered networks of granular chains’, J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 73, 103-117 (2014).

V. Demery, A. Rosso and L. Ponson, ‘From microstructural to effective toughness in brittle solids’, EPL.

"A. Srivastava, L. Ponson, S. Osovski, E. Bouchaud, V. Tvergaard and A. Needleman, ‘Effect of inclusion density on ductile fracture toughness and roughness’, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 63, 62-79

2011

B. Poon, L. Ponson, J. Zhao and G. Ravichandran, ‘Damage accumulation and hysteretic behavior of MAX phase materials’, J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 59, 2238-2257 (2011).

F. Lechenault, C. L. Rountree, F. Cousin, J.-P. Bouchaud, L. Ponson and E. Bouchaud, ‘Evidence of water penetration in silica during stress corrosion fracture’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 165504 (2011).

G. Pallares, A. Grimaldi, M. George, L. Ponson et M. Ciccotti, ‘Quantitative analysis of crack closure driven by Laplace pressure in silica glass’, J. Am. Ceramic Soc. 94, 2613-2618 (2011).

2010

L. Ponson, N. Boechler, Y.M. Lai, M.A. Porter, P.G. Kevrekidis and C. Daraio, ‘Nonlinear waves in disordered diatomic granular chains’, Phys. Rev. E 82, 021301 (2010).

L. Ponson and D. Bonamy, ‘Crack propagation in brittle heterogeneous solids: Material disorder and crack dynamics’, Int. J. Frac. 162, 21-31 (2010).

2009

L. Ponson, ‘Depinning transition in failure of inhomogeneous materials’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 055501 (2009).

G. Pallares, L. Ponson, A. Grimaldi, M. George, G. Prevot, C. Marlière and M. Ciccotti, ‘Profile of tensile crack in DCDC specimens’, Int. J. Frac. 156, 11-20 (2009).

L. Ponson, K. Dienst, H.A. Atwater, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, ‘Competing failure mechanisms in thin films: application to layer transfer’, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 073514 (2009).

2008

L. Barbier, D. Bonamy and L. Ponson, Reply to Comment on ‘Cleaved surface of i-AlPdMn quasicrystals: Influence of crack tip local temperature elevation on fracture surface roughness’, Phys. Rev. B 78, 216202 (2008).

S. Morel, D. Bonamy, L. Ponson and E. Bouchaud, ‘Transient damage spreading and anomalous scaling in mortar crack surfaces’, Phys. Rev. E 78, 016112 (2008).

D. Bonamy, S. Santucci and L. Ponson, ‘Crackling dynamics in material failure as the signature of a self-organized dynamic phase transition’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045501 (2008).

2007

L. Ponson, H. Auradou, M. Pessel, V. Lazarus and J.P. Hulin, ‘Failure mechanisms and surface roughness statistics of fractured Fontainebleau sandstone’, Phys. Rev. E 76, 036108 (2007).

L. Ponson, ‘Crack propagation in disordered materials: How to decipher fracture surfaces’, Ann. Physiques 32, 1-120 (2007).

2006

D. Bonamy, L. Ponson, S. Prades, E. Bouchaud and C. Guillot, ‘Scaling exponents for fracture surfaces in homogenous glass and glassy ceramics’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 135504 (2006).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy and L. Barbier, ‘Cleaved surface of i –AlPdMn quasicrystals: Influence of the crack tip temperature elevation on fracture surface roughness’, Phys. Rev. B 74, 184205 (2006).

A.M. Bataille, L. Ponson, C. Gatel, E. Snoeck, S. Gota, L. Barbier, D. Bonamy and M. Gautier-Soyer, ‘Characterization of antiphase boundary network in Fe304 thin films : Effect on anomalous magnetic behaviour’, Phys. Rev. B 74, 155438 (2006).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy, H. Auradou, G. Mourot, S. Morel, E. Bouchaud and J.P. Hulin, ‘Anisotropic self-affine properties of experimental fracture surfaces’, Int. J. Fracture 140, 27-36 (2006).

D. Bonamy, S. Prades, C.L. Rountree, L. Ponson, D. Dalmas, E. Bouchaud, K. Ravi-Chandar and C. Guillot, ‘Nanoscale damage during fracture in silica glass’, Int. J. Fracture 140, 3-13 (2006).

L. Ponson, H. Auradou, P. Vié and J.P. Hulin, ‘Low self-affine exponents of fractured glass ceramics surfaces’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125501 (2006).

D. Bonamy, S. Prades, L. Ponson, D. Dalmas, C. L. Rountree, E. Bouchaud and C. Guillot, ‘Experimental investigation of damage and fracture in glassy materials at the nanometer scale’, Int. J. Materials & Product Technology 26, 339-352 (2006).

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy and E. Bouchaud, ‘Two-dimensional scaling properties of experimental fracture surfaces’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035506 (2006).

2013

A. Leonard, L. Ponson and C. Daraio, ‘Wave mitigation in ordered networks of granular chains’, J. Mech. Phys. Sol. (in press).

L. Ponson, Y. Cao, E. Bouchaud, V. Tvergaard and A. Needleman, ‘Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: The effect of material parameters’, Int. J. Frac. 184, 137-149 (2013).

S. Xia, L. Ponson, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, ‘Adhesion of heterogeneous thin films: I. Elastic heterogeneity’, J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 61, 838-851 (2013).

M. Vasoya, J. B. Leblond and L. Ponson, ‘A geometrically nonlinear analysis of coplanar crack propagation in some heterogeneous medium’, Int. J. Solids Struct., 50, 371-378 (2013).

2012

S. Xia, L. Ponson, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, ‘Toughening and asymmetry in peeling of heterogeneous adhesives’, Phys. Rev. Lett.108, 196101 (2012).