Damage Growth in Random Fuse Networks

Details Damage Growth in Random Fuse Networks Damage Growth in Random Fuse Networks

2004-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401592v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2005-00292-2

The correlations among elements that break in random fuse network fracture are studied, for disorder strong enough to allow for volume damage before final failure. The growth of microfractures is found to be uncorrelated above a lengthscale, that increases as the the final breakdown is approached. Since the fuse network strength decreases with sample size, asymptotically the process resembles more and more mean-field-like (``democratic fiber bundle'') fracture. This is found from the microscopic dynamics of avalanches or microfractures, from a study of damage localization via entropy, and from the final damage profile. In particular, the last one is statistically constant, except exactly at the final crack zone (in contrast to recent results by Hansen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 045504 (2003)), in spite of the fact that the fracture surfaces are self-affine.

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