Nonlinear Physics Group: Papers on columnar joints and mud cracks
Papers on columnar joints and mud cracks
Papers are listed with the most recent at the top.
- Pattern evolution in desiccation crack networks, by Matthew West, undergraduate report, unpublished, May 2016.
- Mud crack pattern evolution in iterated drying cycles, by Mary Miedema, undergraduate report, unpublished, May 2015.
- Cracking mud, freezing dirt, and breaking rocks, by Lucas Goehring and Stephen W. Morris, Physics Today, 67, 11, 45 (2014).
- Nonequilibrium scale selection mechanism for columnar jointing, by Lucas Goehring L. Mahadevan and Stephen W. Morris, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106, 387 (2009).
- On the scaling and ordering of columnar joints, by Lucas Goehring. Ph.D. thesis, Unpublished, Nov. 2007.
- The Scaling of Columnar Joints in Basalt, by Lucas Goehring and Stephen W. Morris, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, B10203 (2008). doi:10.1029/2007JB005018.
- An Experimental Investigation of the Scaling of Columnar Joints, by Lucas Goehring, Zhenquan Lin and Stephen W. Morris. Physical Review E 74, 036115 (2006).
- Order and disorder in columnar joints, by Lucas Goehring and Stephen W. Morris, Europhysics Letters, 69, 739 (2005).
- A study of 3D crack patterns and columnar jointing in corn starch, by Lucas Goehring, M.Sc. thesis, Unpublished, (2003).
- Development and geometry of isotropic
and directional shrinkage crack patterns,
Kelly A. Shorlin,
John R. de Bruyn,
Malcolm Graham and
Stephen W. Morris,
Physical Review E, 61, 6950 (2000).
- A study of shrinkage crack patterns,
Kelly A. Linehan,
M.Sc. Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Unpublished, (1997).
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