Failure time in the fiber-bundle model with thermal noise and disorder
Materials Science
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The average time for the onset of macroscopic fractures is analytically and numerically investigated in the fiber-bundle model with quenched disorder and thermal noise under a constant load. We find an implicit exact expression for the failure time in the low-temperature limit that is accurately confirmed by direct simulations. The effect of the disorder is to lower the energy barrier.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206201,
title = {Failure time in the fiber-bundle model with thermal noise and disorder},
author = {Antonio Politi and Segio Ciliberto and Riccardo Scorretti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206201},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E