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Statistical Physics of Fracture and Earthquake

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

This chapter introduces the fracture nucleation process, their (extreme) statistics in disordered solids, in fiber bundle models, and in the two fractal overlap models of earthquake.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609629,
  title  = {Statistical Physics of Fracture and Earthquake},
  author = {Bikas K. Chakrabarti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609629},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

15 pages 11 figs, from: Modelling Critical & Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: A Statistical Physics Approach; Eds. P. Bhattacharyya & B. K. Chakrabarti, Springer, Heidelberg (2005), pp. 3-26