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Correlation between avalanches and emitted energies during fracture with variable stress release range

Statistical Mechanics 2022-02-22 v1

Abstract

We observe the failure process of a fiber bundle model with a variable stress release range, γ\gamma, higher the value of γ\gamma lower the stress release range. By tuning γ\gamma from low to high, it is possible to go from the mean-field (MF) limit of the model to local load sharing (LLS) where local stress concentration plays a crucial role. In the MF limit, the avalanche size ss and energy EE emitted during the avalanche are highly correlated producing the same distribution for both P(s)P(s) and Q(E)Q(E): a scale-free distribution with a universal exponent -5/2. With increasing γ\gamma, the model enters the LLS limit. In this limit, due to the presence of local stress concentration such correlation C(γ)C(\gamma) between ss and EE decreases where the nature of the decreases depends highly on the dimension of the bundle. In 1d, the C(γ)C(\gamma) stars from a high value for low γ\gamma and decreases towards zero when γ\gamma is increased. As a result, Q(E)Q(E) and P(s)P(s) are similar at low γ\gamma, an exponential one, and then Q(E)Q(E) becomes power-law for high-stress release range though P(s)P(s) remains exponential. On the other hand, in 2d, the C(γ)C(\gamma) decreases slightly with γ\gamma but remains at a high value. Due to such a high correlation, the distribution of both ss and EE is exponential in the LLS limit independent of how large γ\gamma is.

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@article{arxiv.2108.06516,
  title  = {Correlation between avalanches and emitted energies during fracture with variable stress release range},
  author = {Narendra K. Bodaballa and Soumyajyoti Biswas and Subhadeep Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06516},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures

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