Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-07-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021118
We study the breakdown of a random fiber bundle model (RFBM) with $n$-discontinuities in the threshold distribution using the global load sharing scheme. In other words, $n+1$ different classes of fibers identified on the basis of their threshold strengths are mixed such that the strengths of the fibers in the $i-th$ class are uniformly distributed between the values $\sigma_{2i-2}$ and $\sigma_{2i-1}$ where $1 \leq i \leq n+1$. Moreover, there is a gap in the threshold distribution between $i-th$ and $i+1-th$ class. We show that although the critical stress depends on the parameter values of the system, the critical exponents are identical to that obtained in the recursive dynamics of a RFBM with a uniform distribution and global load sharing. The avalanche size distribution (ASD), on the other hand, shows a non-universal, non-power law behavior for smaller values of avalanche sizes which becomes prominent only when a critical distribution is approached. We establish that the behavior of the avalanche size distribution for an arbitrary $n$ is qualitatively similar to a RFBM with a single discontinuity in the threshold distribution ($n=1$), especially when the density and the range of threshold values of fibers belonging to strongest ($n+1$)-th class is kept identical in all the cases.
Divakaran Uma
Dutta Amit
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