Damage in Fiber Bundle Models
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v2 Materials Science
Abstract
We introduce a continuous damage fiber bundle model that gives rise to macroscopic plasticity and compare its behavior with that of dry fiber bundles. Several interesting constitutive behaviors are found in this model depending on the value of the damage parameter and on the form of the disorder distribution. In addition, we compare the behavior of global load transfer models with local load transfer models and study in detail the damage evolution before failure. We emphasize the analogies between our results and spinodal nucleation in first-order phase transitions.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908226,
title = {Damage in Fiber Bundle Models},
author = {Ferenc Kun and Stefano Zapperi and Hans J. Herrmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908226},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, 13 figures (ps, eps)