Conditions for abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We argue that the existence of abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model is more general than concluded by da Silveira in his comment (cond-mat/9709327). We refute his claim that the nature of the rupture process in the DFBM depends on the ``disorder distribution only via its large failure strength behavior''.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9712313,
title = {Conditions for abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model},
author = {D. Sornette and K. -T. Leung and J. V. Andersen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9712313},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
1 page in revtex, reply to the comment to our letter J.V. Andersen, D. Sornette and K.-T. Leung, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2140 (1997)