Damage nucleation phenomena: Statistics of times to failure

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2009-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5179v1

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Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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In this paper we investigate the statistical behavior of an annealed continuous damage model. For different model variations we study distributions of times to failure and compare these results with the classical case of metastable nucleation in statistical mechanics. We show that our model has a tuning parameter which significantly determines the model behavior. Depending on the values of this tuning parameter, our model exhibits statistical behavior either similar to nucleation of systems in statistical mechanics or an absolutely different type of behavior intrinsic only for systems with damage. This lets us investigate the possible similarities and differences between damage phenomena and classical phenomena of nucleation in statistical mechanics.

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