Dynamic critical behavior of failure and plastic deformation in the random fiber bundle model

Details Dynamic critical behavior of failure and plastic deformation in the random fiber bundle model Dynamic critical behavior of failure and plastic deformation in the random fiber bundle model

2002-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201067v3

Phys. Rev. E 66, 016116 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 5 figures, extensively revised and accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.016116

The random fiber bundle (RFB) model, with the strength of the fibers distributed uniformly within a finite interval, is studied under the assumption of global load sharing among all unbroken fibers of the bundle. At any fixed value of the applied stress (load per fiber initially present in the bundle), the fraction of fibers that remain unbroken at successive time steps is shown to follow simple recurrence relations. The model is found to have stable fixed point for applied stress in the range 0 and 1; beyond which total failure of the bundle takes place discontinuously. The dynamic critical behavior near this failure point has been studied for this model analysing the recurrence relations. We also investigated the finite size scaling behavior. At the critical point one finds strict power law decay (with time t) of the fraction of unbroken fibers. The avalanche size distribution for this mean-field dynamics of failure has been studied. The elastic response of the RFB model has also been studied analytically for a specific probability distribution of fiber strengths, where the bundle shows plastic behavior before complete failure, following an initial linear response.

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