We explore the conductance of self-healing materials as a measure of the material integrity in the regime of the onset of the initial fatigue. Continuum effective-field modeling and lattice numerical simulations are reported. Our results illustrate the general features of the self-healing process: The onset of the material fatigue is delayed, by developing a plateau-like time-dependence of the material quality. We demonstrate that in this low-damage regime, the changes in the conductance and similar transport/response properties of the material can be used as measures of the material quality degradation.
@article{arxiv.0704.0935,
title = {Percolation Modeling of Conductance of Self-Healing Composites},
author = {Alexander Dementsov and Vladimir Privman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0935},
year = {2010}
}